how hosting facility reacts to heavy load

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  1. mjp

    mjp

    You're talking about less than 150 visitors an hour at 100,000 a month. That is not going to be a problem.

    Generally speaking, add-ons like RAM are only available on dedicated servers. A shared hosting environment is not always the best place for extremely busy, resource intensive sites.

    Having said that, we do host many sites that consume enormous amounts of bandwidth and have many times the visitors that you are anticipating, and they run just fine, so I don't think you'll have any problems.

    mjp
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    mjp, Oct 27, 2006
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  2. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    If you have a busy site, the biggest deciding factor is not really hardware but rather how well the application is written.


    During my years in the web hosting business, I have seen some poorly written applications that go completely dead whenthey have more than 5 concurrent users. While other applications, can handle hundreds of concurrent connection without any significant load on the server.


    If you expect a lot of traffic, I recommend youload test your application (There are many tools out there that does HTTP load testing) in your development environment.


    - Make sure you do not see


    a) High CPU load on both web / SQL server
    b) Memory usage do not go skyrocket
    c) Check the database connection and make sure it doesn't pile up over time. if so, your application is probably not closing all the connections




    Bruce

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    Bruce, Oct 27, 2006
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  3. thewebschoo

    thewebschoo

    please i am concerned about the fact that i did not see addons options for things like memory or processing power.
    i just got a site up on discoutasp platform and this site would be accessed by not less that 50,000 client in the
    first month of its use [mainly because of the purpose the site is to serve] infact we have budgeted for 100,000 users
    in the first month [they would be uploading images that would be writing to a database].
    my concern is at the peek period of the sites usage how will the hosting facility scale interms of concurrent
    connection and heavy database activity now that it seems they offer a generic processing power,memory faciltity
    i would have thought that an ideal implementation would have concedered having addons for processing power and ram
    please kindly advise how discountasp would deal with this situation.
    also like i said in one

    Post Edited By Moderator (Joel Thoms) : 10/27/2006 9:19:21 PM GMT
     
    thewebschoo, Oct 27, 2006
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  4. joelnet

    joelnet

    I've seen sites on DASP do that amount of traffic in half a day. The servers will handle the load no problem, though, like bruce said,it'll be up to your application if it is written well enough to handle it.



    Joel Thoms
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    joelnet, Oct 27, 2006
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