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At all times, your own bandwidth, storage and processor requirements (and associated costs) will vary depending on what you plan to do with the system.

Staging Server

Once you are running DSpace in a production environment, it is highly recommended to run a separate, second instance of DSpace on a test or staging server. Any DSpace upgrades, customizations or other modifications can first be evaluated on this staging server before you move to production. If the actual testing is carried out by only a few people, your staging server will not experience the same levels of load as your production server. Therefor, you can bring down the system requirements for your staging server, even below the above minimum requirements.

To make sure that your staging environment is a realistic simulation of your production server, it is recommended to mirror as much settings or configuration as possible. Needless to say, a staging server on windows will not provide reliable testing outcomes if your actual production machine is running linux and vice versa.

To simulate higher levels of load on your staging server, you can use free tools like JMeter.

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