: What kind of hosting web server / DB / infrastructure is need for high volume dating website? I want to know what kind of infrastructure is need for a dating website developed in php/mysql.

@Sue5673885

I found this document which describes the architecture of match.com www.plentyoffish.com/match.pdf. At one point they had 120 servers. So you're looking at getting 40 servers. You'll want them all to yourself so you need to pay for dedicated hosting, or buy them yourself and rent space in a data centre.

You need to move to a higher level when your servers are beginning to get overloaded.

How much disk space - it depends how much data you have.

Server configuration is something that can't be easily answered in a question like this, but you'll probably want a front end server that passes out requests to other servers. You'll want to separate out the databases from the servers doing scripting and the servers serving up static content.

To start off though, you could have two servers, one for the database, one for everything else.

This question isn't quite the same as yours, but has some pointers to useful resources: serverfault.com/questions/84715/nix-cloud-cluster-solutions-for-scalable-web-services

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