From: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com>
I need to know that it will be able to handle the amount of users and hits that this site will have to deal with. About 275,000 users to have accounts and about 150,000 hits a day (at the moment but set to grow quickly).
Easily.
How much of a difference does it make if most of those hits make a transaction (ie change something in the database). Hmm. That was a very loosely put question, maybe I should be more specific so I'll get a better answer. :-) If I have a nice big commodity box, say a 1GHz PC, and have users that with all of their hits make some kind of transaction, say, writing in a discussion forum, or reading in a discussion forum (and thereby marking the posts as read, hence the transaction). How many users would such a system be able to handle? 100, 1000, 10.000, 100.000? Any experiences on this?