"Over a million page views per day" and "large site" should NOT be mentioned in one sentence.
Make your large site a million page views an HOUR and you talk of a site that starts to be large. 1 million page views a day, lets say over a period of 8 hours (to account for spikes etc.) are 125000 page views an hour. That sounds impressive until you divide it by the 3600 seconds an hour has. 35 page views a second. Hardly impressive. Regards Thomas Tomiczek THONA Consulting Ltd. (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET) -----Original Message----- From: Monsur Hossain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Montag, 6. Mai 2002 20:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] ASP.NET's Application object: does it scale? I've been reading a lot of resources[1][2] advocating the use of ASP.NET's Application object to store a global data cache. This limits hits to the database. However I'm skeptical of the Application object's ability to scale to larger sites with over a million page views a day. In our current web application (using just ASP), we've made it a rule not to use Application/Sessions in order to gain that tiny performance edge. Anyone have any facts/opinions regarding .NET's Application object as a data cache? Anyone have a better way? Thanks, Monsur [1] http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_04/magazine/columns/aspnet/ [2] http://www.devx.com/premier/mgznarch/vbpj/2002/02feb02/ws0202/ws0202- 1.asp You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
