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 is not a “How-To” article, but I have tried to include examples of “real world” experiences I’ve encountered along the way. Now, without further delay, lets take a stroll through Five Important Tests you should perform before “Go Live” with your SharePoint solution.