Openfire Server Hardware Suggestions

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External DB is considered faster and more reliable, also easier to maintain and backup. Though i was always using the embedded one myself.

Explanation: scalability, system requirements

As this question pops up in the forums fairly often, i have decided to compile a simple document with an explanation of the issue regarding such questions and also provide here links to various tests made by users (which are scattered in separate threads or in other places in the internet). No definitive answer problem: Users ask in the forums what hardware should they use or how well Openfire will scale. There is no definitive accurate answer to that. Because this depends on hundreds of vario…