Re: Can my server handle 500,000 page views per day ?

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From: Richard Caley
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00

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In article <gYIB4.19613$Nn6.766237@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, Chiltown Worldwide (cw) writes:

cw> We have recently switched ISPs for our hosting needs.  On April 1st, our
cw> online store (www.chiltown.com) will be live and based upon our advertising
cw> budget, we expect 100,000 page views per day for the first week.

This isn't a very useful number. Consider, if it's spread out
throughout the day that is between 1 and 2 hits a second. A calculator
on a piece of wet string:-).

OTOH if it's something everyone does at lunch time you might be
talking 20-30 hits per second. Not so much of a problem if you're just
serving pages, but if you're doing anything exciting for a reasonable
proportion of thos ehits or if you have big things to send or...


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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Can my server handle 500,000 page views per day ?
Date: 2000/03/21
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