<rein.vanspaendonck@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> We are planning on renting a dedicated server for two of our web
> applications. I would appreciate it if someone could give us some
> advice on the server requirements in terms of the CPU and RAM. Here's
> our situation:
>
> Both these apps use Full Text Indexing on one column (varchar 255) in
> each database. One of these databases already has around 1.3 million
> rows, the other one about 200.000 and both are growing at about a rate
> of 100.000 rows a month. The websites that use the databases have
> about 1000 visitors a day. We are using SQL Express 2005 with Advanced
> Services.
>
> Can someone give me an indication at what to look at when renting the
> dedicated server?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>