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Originally Posted by Jack
It's much easier to serve web pages to a lot of people at the same time vs. serving a lot of file downloads... (CD: Dynamic Web Pages (yes.. the dynamic does cause a hit, but i *think* vb3 is better able to handle them) FIRST: The Rule Book pdf file downloads).
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Easier for what? They both tax totally different things. Dynamic web pages take a hit on the cpu (and the ram). Serving 1 or two large files (as FIRST is going to be doing) taxes the upstream bandwidth, which is something they haven't had enough of for the past few years. If they were serving 20 big files, then the disk subsystem would come into play, but since it is only a few, they are probably kept entirely in RAM.
BTW, Brandon, I don't know what the load and mem usage is like, but I would bet that dual processors would be a better upgrade then more memory, albeit more expensive.