[NTLUG:Discuss] Thanks. RE: define heavy web traffic

[m m]

Thanks all for the inputs.

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> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:59:51 -0500
> From: pmichaud at pobox.com
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] define heavy web traffic
> 
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:00:00PM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
>> m m wrote:
>>> All:
>>> 
>>> one of my co-worker told me the in the peak season, we will 
>>> have 40,000-50,000 hit a month on our web server.
>>> I said it is ok for linux box (for one single box). 
>>> Am I exaggerated?
>>> How does people define  the light, medium, heavy for a website?
>> 
>> 50K a month is light.
>> 
>> Not sure that the generally accepted values would be for
>> "medium" or "heavy".
> 
> 50K a month is extremely light.  Even 50K per day is relatively
> light from a server's perspective -- less than one hit per
> second on average.
> 
> Personally I think anything under 50K per day is very light,
> from 50K-200K is medium, and 200K hits/day and up is getting
> a bit heavy.  And if a site consists primarily of static
> content and images, then you're far more likely to run into
> bandwidth limitations before you max out the server's
> capacity.
> 
> FWIW, pmwiki.org gets approximately 100K hits per day,
> and it's on a Linux virtual private server (where the hardware
> is shared with other clients), along with about eight other
> light traffic websites (including ntlug.org), all of which
> are dynamically rendering pages in response to each request.
> 
> So, yes, a linux box should easily be able to handle what
> you're working with.  
> 
> Pm
> 
> 
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