Hardware considerations for installing Confluence wiki at University of Canterbury

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[edit] Hardware Considerations

Looking at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/System+Requirements

Server specs: 

 "Over 25 concurrent users" 512MB+ RAM, Dual 2.4GHz Xeon
 "Over 100 concurrent users" 4GB RAM, Dual 2.4GHz Xeon

I think I'd go for 1GB, 2 virtual CPUs .... and expand if needed.

Looking at the "typical hardware" listed at http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=76840961

I think that should be fine - and that we could also go with the default 16GB drive, even if we store the data locally.

[edit] Database considerations

Databases supported: 

 PostgreSQL 8.1, 8.2
 Oracle 10.1, 10.2
 MySQL 50.0.28 and above
 DB2 8.2
 SQL Server 2005

Database gotchas: strongly recommended to use UTF-8 character encoding all the way through to the database: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Encoding

Confluence documentation links:

[edit] Load balancing

Loadbalancing: Confluence supports Cluster installation but needs a cluster license to do it. I think we won't have to do it for quite some time.... http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Cluster+Installation


[edit] Backups

  • Confluence can be doing automatic backups, but that can eat up space and cause delays when accessing the wiki during a backup.
  • Big decision to make: should attachments be on filesystem or in Database?


[edit] Shibboleth login

Documented at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Shibboleth+Authenticator+for+Confluence

  • Note: this extension is community supported, not Confluence supported.
  • Confluence has their own SSO solution, Crowd - which is however based on OpenID.
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