Ian Griffiths wrote: > > (5). A million an hour is definitely (6), but how many of those > are there? > Not even Microsoft get a million page views an hour on average.
The BBC 'only' gets 0.5 million page impressions per hour, averaged out across a year. http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/mrtg/apache/allhits.html Of course, there's a big difference in what 'large' means when applied to a dynamic website, versus a static website. microsoft.com actively prevents ICPs from hosting ASP websites on the www.microsoft.com server. When you genuinely need a database back-end (with no front-end cacheing), then it is more difficult to scale up/out to these sort of figures (think Hotmail). Richard You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
