I just took a mainstream site over and changed it from ASP to PHP. It wasn't like a port, I didn't have the ASP source I just copied the graphics and made up my own code to do the job. I was having problems at first so I asked the old guys tech what sort of gear they used for it before, he wrote:
"We are running the site on two boxes, one of which is dedicated to the
database the other is acting as the web server. Both are pretty high specd
machines with 4 CPUs each, though you probably could get away with one box and two CPUs running both the web server and the database."
Well I went away and sorted out a few bad bits of code, installed APC cache the sites now cranking away on a single 1GHZ CPU FreeBSD box with 512mb ram, load averages: 0.16, 0.13, 0.09.
FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, MySQL is all free so why bother with Microsoft!
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