Chapter 15. Capacity Planning and Site Growth

In this chapter, we discuss how to use the results of your performance test to plan for site capacity and growth. This involves comparing your original performance test plan objectives with the results of the test and extrapolating to develop your production hardware and software needs.

Capacity planning tells you how much hardware and software you need to dedicate to the production web site. It gives you the best production deployment configuration to use based on the performance results. Also, it provides a growth plan for your web site to help you plan the growth of equipment, software, and expense over a defined period of time.