Tell me more ×  I work for a small contracting company, and we
typically work inside existing farms with existing IT
infrastructure to do high level overhauls of bad SharePoint
work.  We've been hired to build an application from the ground
up, and we're ALL developers. I've never had to spec a server
farm before.  The site will have about 10,000 users, from all
around the world, so traffic will be steady, but fairly light.
The work load per user will be fairly robust, with some
analytics going on for the list items they are accessing.  How
do I calculate hardware need? I'm thinking to start two servers.
One web front end, one database server, each with 12 GB memory.
Does this sound reasonable?  share|improve this question add
comment  3 Answers  up vote 1 down vote accepted  To begin with,
I would recommend to have a Small Farm Topology with two tier
similar to what you have suggested. But I would insist having
the database server on a fail-over cluster mode, for much more
availability. These recommendation