# Estmation of hardware needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 10, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estmation-of-hardware-needed/38821 "2016-01-10T20:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sheker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Sheker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sheker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estmation-of-hardware-needed/38821/1 "2016-01-10T20:00:15Z")
Hi, this is a very broad question and I guess the answer will have lot's of "it depends" but i'm just trying to get some general idea and not an exact answer. I am using Elasticsearch to index and search web pages (human readable text only, no html). for each page there is a title text field and a body text field. queries are similar to a general search engine. It's working great but as I index more pages searching obviously gets slower and I wanted to know: If I want to go to about 1 billion pages and have searches return in about 1 second, what size of hardware do I roughly need? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estmation-of-hardware-needed/38821/2 "2016-01-10T22:09:09Z")
What's acceptable performance? At what level of docs and nodes is that? If you add more data, how many more nodes/resources do you need to add to get acceptable performance? You really need to test and figure it out yourself. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estmation-of-hardware-needed/38821/3 "2017-07-05T23:25:37Z")