For the POC phase:
Windows 2008 R2 server (or higher), 4GB+ RAM, 20GB50GB+ HDD
For Production:
Medium Load option
Windows 2012 R2 or Higher Standard Edition/2008 R2 Ent. +, 16 GB RAM, Dual Core Intel Xeon E3 or similar, 5 GB free disk space (mainly for logs).
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One server supports up to ~7k concurrent users
High Load option
Win2012 R2 or Higher, Quad Core Xeon or similar, 24GB ram, 25G disk space.
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One server supports up to ~18k concurrent users
Extreme High Load option
Win2012 R2 or Higher, 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon® 16 Cores, 64GB ram, 50G disk space.
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