What's the max traffic a CFMX7.1/IIS6/Win 2003 servercan handle

[fvanstaveren]

What's the max traffic a CFMX7.1/IIS6/Win 2003 server can handle?

I'm trying to prove to some doubters that we're sized appropriately for the application that is proposed.
Thanks,
Frank

[jdeline]

As you can probably guess, it is dependent upon what the traffic is doing, the
speed and RAM of your server, the bandwidth of your pipe, your OS and a host of
other factors. One of our web sites is a Win2K IIS6 CF5 4-gig 4-way Xeon. It
averages 27hits per second with a peak over 100 per second. With 10 hits per
page view, that translates to 2.7 average page views per second, or more than
10 at peak period.

BTW, New York is mispelled.

[Kronin555]

Depends on a number of things.

How database-intensive is your site? Are you using sessions? how much are you
storing in the sessions? are you properly caching queries? How image-intensive
is your site? how big is the pipe your server is connected to?

What hardware are you running on? hard drive speed/hard drive
configuration/processor speed/ram

The best way to judge the traffic your site can handle is to write a portion
of it, using the framework proposed, and put a load tester on it. I've seen
well-written sites run great on small hardware, and on the flip side, I've seen
poorly-written sites bring big hardware to its knees.

[BKBK]

The amount of RAM in your server is also an important determinant
of performance. Enter strings like request/second IIS 6.0, benchmark, etc. in
a search engine. Whichever side wins the argument, both will this
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