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I'm defining the technical infrastructure required for my start-up

We currently have in our possession a physical Dell PowerEdge T310 server http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-t310/pd

We will be launching a site/app that utilizes push notifications, check-ins, etc.

Just wondering how much traffic the server could support? We are utilizing google places API, which handles 100,00 requests/day

At what point should we be thinking about moving into the cloud? Anyone have any suggestions as to any specific services (amazon?)

Also, at what internet speed should we be operating at? I'm looking at Time Warner Cable Business Class

http://www.twcbc.com/

Thanks,

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A detailed discussion of hosting options would be off-topic here, but what is very much on-topic is this: focus on finding customers and stop worrying about scaling until later.

Let's put it more succintly: in all likelihood, during your first month of operations, you'll be serving about 100 visitors a day. Can your current setup handle it? Of course. So, start worrying on more complex hosting once you can detect a growing trend.

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I highly agree. I used to worry about scaling, but realized it is a waste of time and resources. Deal with scaling when it becomes a problem. Unless you are the next Facebook, or the like, you probably won't have scaling issues. – Clint Jul 9 '11 at 23:07
My business's e-commerce website has been running on an old dual-Pentium 3 over a fixed-wireless connection (3mb/s) with a static IP for the last 2 years. The server is always idle. Google Webmaster tools consistently shows that our site is faster than 90% of all other sites (0.5s - 1.5s). As traffic has increased, that stat has dropped somewhat. So recently I moved all of our content to a CDN. Our current app server and connection should take us at least another 2 years. I'll figure out what to do when that time comes. – Clint Jul 9 '11 at 23:36

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