Your best approach would be to interact with Macromedia to get some case studies on large-scale deployments to put the client's minds at ease. CF can be just fine, but you have to build the site to handle the traffic level the client anticipates.
I built logitech.com several years ago, and we had two load-balanced web servers running CF 4 on Solaris. It all hummed along nicely until traffic spiked to 5x normal because some Logitech product was on Oprah one day. The servers melted down and couldn't handle that load. (This was an odd situation, but my point is that capacity testing and metrics on expected traffic, including spikes are important.) I think we were handling a million page-views a day or so, then it spiked to 5mil. But this was completely different from CF MX on modern hardware & Win2k. CF can do a nice job of working with load-balancing hardware, but you have to anticipate that when you're designing the site, too. (Session variables are worse than cookies for such situations.) -glenn > -----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. ======================================================
