Lets say you administer the network and systems for a large

Let’s say you administer the network and systems for a large company that sells boxed video games via an online storefront. Because of a solid customer base of 40,000 returning customers, the CEO wants to expand the product line to add online delivery and interactive gaming via the company\'s self-hosted website.

The marketing team’s research indicates that the project will be profitable because of the phenomenal recent growth in the video game industry. But due to lack of communication between departments in the project planning stages, the costs of beefing up the company’s systems were not factored into the budget.

As soon as you get wind of the project, you realize that the existing infrastructure and aging web servers are totally inadequate to provide the needed performance, load balancing, and bandwidth to support multimedia delivery of this scale; and that ultimately you will be left holding the bag for a failed project.

How would you deal with this situation, what recommendations might you suggest, and what additional resources might be needed to support a possible 40,000 (plus) online gamers? How would you explain your solution to this problem to the non-technical CEO in order to justify the additional costs?

Solution

Well what I would do as a network administrator if I am likely to face more than 40000 requests. Since we are talking about gaming platform so wee need to consider that the total 40,000 users which we have are going to be online simultaneously which means 40,000 users will be online at the same time making GET and POST requests. Well best possible recourse for the situation is to use dedicated hosting provided by a good hosting provider, because if you are using self hosted server this means that you have lot of overhead on yourself as well as services provided by shared hosting and VPS are not adequate for fulfilling the requirement which we have for the given situation. Only dedicated hosting will be able to do the job precisely and smoothly.. But as we know that dedicated hosting means extra cost to the project but for a gaming software I recommend to non technical CEO that you can use this dedicated hosting for some other purposes along with this gaming platform like SMTP service provider which will give a different perspective in the monetization model of the company and the additional cost can be reduced by using this strategy.