What type of connection and recommended speed should the web server have to the local ethernet (eg 100Mbits/sec)?
It is not possible to give a single answer to this kind of question. The issue is ensuring sufficient bandwidth, given anticipated levels of traffic. Traffic levels will depend on numbers of users and the kind of material being accessed. A project that anticipated 10 concurrent users accessing text-based material will have significantly less bandwidth requirements than a project anticipating 100 concurrent users accessing streaming video. Access performance should be ‘reasonable’ for all resources served by the project, but it is difficult to provide guidance currently on what ‘reasonable’ means. Available bandwidth at the server end of less than 56K for any individual end-user is likely to have an impact on their perception of server performance. Image or video projects will probably want to aim much higher than this. Available bandwidth is total bandwidth divided by total numbers of users (but remember to allow for bandwidth being used for other things – e.g. some public library/coun
