SharePoint Magazine

Although it seems obvious that adding hardware resources to a system should provide improved performance, a customized Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS) website cluster showed the opposite in recent testing for a customer. Load testing with 200 simulated users gave disappointing results, with page durations between 10 and 30 seconds, and the system handling only about four pages per second. Curiously, reducing the cluster to a single SharePoint® server improved the performance.

This series of articles provide an overview of how to plan, build and configure the common SharePoint farm across your organization.