[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for suggestions - 25000 visitors

2007-06-27 Thread Carlos Oyarzabal
Hi list, I was asked for a web site that could have 25,000 visitors DAILY for one week (it sounds like a rally). The application will be very small: every visitor will enter its ID and one promo codes. As you can see 25k visitors are a lot of, so I would like to have some recomendations to build

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for suggestions - 25000 visitors

2007-06-27 Thread Hiep Nguyen
be aware of those jerks out there may write code to enter ID promo codes automatically and 25k visitors can be done only in 5 min (assume that they figure how you generate ID promo codes). you may need some mechanisms to ensure ID promo codes entered by human in real time. just a thought.

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for suggestions - 25000 visitors

2007-06-27 Thread Kees Hoekzema
Hello, I was asked for a web site that could have 25,000 visitors DAILY for one week (it sounds like a rally). The application will be very small: every visitor will enter its ID and one promo codes. 25.000 is less than 1 per second, what type of page are they requesting? Mostly dynamic

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for suggestions - 25000 visitors

2007-06-27 Thread Carlos Oyarzabal
original- De: Kees Hoekzema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: MiƩrcoles, 27 de Junio de 2007 10:33 a.m. Para: users@httpd.apache.org Asunto: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for suggestions - 25000 visitors Hello, I was asked for a web site that could have 25,000 visitors DAILY for one week

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for suggestions - 25000 visitors

2007-06-27 Thread Nick Kew
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:04:57 -0500 Carlos Oyarzabal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We wait for spikes at first hours every day because the web site will support a rally. The pages requested will be mostly static. The pageviews could reach 3 per visitor. The queries could reach 5 per

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for suggestions - 25000 visitors

2007-06-27 Thread Victor Trac
My server just hit front page digg.com, and it was #7 on the alexa.commovers and shakers list. A single thread on a forum I host was the culprit, and the page itself must have 10-15 mysql queries generated by PHP. At one point I had 3,400 simultaneous connections, moving over 20megabits of