Type of Server for RDP hosting

Duner said:

Hi, We're going to upgrade our current server at work. It's a celeron 2.4 (northwood core) with 3GB of ram running windows server 2000. It currently hosts 6 users via terminal services to run 1 program. It's a small client program that really just serves as a GUI to access our database on another server.

We are expanding and will need ~12 concurrent users logged in via RDP to run this 1 program. Will this be a CPU/RAM/HDD limited process? My experience running a server is quite limited.

I'm thinking of an i3 2C/4T with ?4-8GB of ram and a standard 7200rpm HDD running windows server 2008 standard edition.

Thoughts and comments are appreciated.

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Duner said:

That's the thing, the Celly is not handling things well at the moment. We get some stuttering, CPU usage is pegged a lot of the time and things randomly crash so I want to make sure the new server can handle 12 clients. Just not sure how demanding that is and which part of the PC needs to be beefed up the most.

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Duner said:

Well, I'm downloading the trial version of Windows Server 2008 and I'm going to run it on my A64 X2 3800+ with 4GB of ram and a standard 7200rpm HDD. We'll see how it goes during the trial period. If it seems too slow, then I'll put in my Propus 620. If all goes well, I'll get a similar box from Dell. I can't resist the price break they give on the OS's and CAL's. Well worth the price of the Server itself.

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