load balancer with multiple servers until you get just crazy traffic, then it goes to farms, and then to sending the user to the closest farm and all kinds of fun stuff. what you should look at is more how many users might actually be using the site in say one hour. there's no such thing as a web site handing thousands of concurrent requests. not even the big dogs with farms and farms have to handle that. you're more looking at the number of concurrent users browing the application that the web server can handle, which is actually probably going to depend just as much on how you code your application as how the web server is built, and possibly even more. from my experience, I'm betting that they probably have a perl hack or someone similar high up in their internal tech group that is telling them that CF can't handle what they're trying to do. what you need to find out is what they're trying to compare it to, why, and what their plan would be if CF didn't fair well in the comparison. are they going to go out and get the application done in perl rather than CF because of the different load on the server? you need to let them know that there are a lot more give and takes than just performance. there are definitely coding time, programmers, scalability, maintenance, and visual issues that would play a very large role in their application if they're thinking about all the different programming options.
Bruce Dunwiddie Ticket Technology P: 866.543.3331 F: 913.451.7832 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristi J. Bohling Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [KCFusion] number of concurrent users We are looking at providing training for Nestl�'s Pet Food Division. They are worried that ColdFusion can't handle the concurrent requests and that even if it queue's the requests, eventually a queue runs out of room. Does anyone know the limit... thousands, millions? How do you handle requests after that? Multiple servers? My strength is in programming, not setting up the network. Again, any information is appreciated. Kristi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: RE: [KCFusion] number of concurrent users > > Approximately "lots", depending on lots of things. > > -glenn > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Kristi J. Bohling > > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:11 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [KCFusion] number of concurrent users > > > > > > Our client is asking a question about cold that I am not sure how to > > answer... maybe someone here can help? > > > > They want to know how many users can access the server at one time? How > > many concurrent requests can the server handle? > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, Kristi > > > > > > > > ========================================================= > > Kansas City ColdFusion User Group's website & listserv is > > hosted through the generous support of Clickdoug.com > > To send email to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with your request. > > For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com > > Featuring Win2003 Enterprise, RedHat Linux, CFMX 6.1. > > ====================================================== > > > > > ========================================================= > Kansas City ColdFusion User Group's website & listserv is > hosted through the generous support of Clickdoug.com > To send email to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe or unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your request. > For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com > Featuring Win2003 Enterprise, RedHat Linux, CFMX 6.1. > ====================================================== > > ========================================================= Kansas City ColdFusion User Group's website & listserv is hosted through the generous support of Clickdoug.com To send email to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your request. For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com Featuring Win2003 Enterprise, RedHat Linux, CFMX 6.1. ====================================================== ========================================================= Kansas City ColdFusion User Group's website & listserv is hosted through the generous support of Clickdoug.com To send email to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your request. For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com Featuring Win2003 Enterprise, RedHat Linux, CFMX 6.1. ======================================================
