How Well Can You Support Really High Traffic?

[criosa]

Hey guys

 

There's a website that offers a service of registering dancers for competitions online. For some of these competitions, they get an extraordinary amount of hits the day it opens. I know some of these competitions have a limit to the number of dancers in the 1500-2000 range. For whatever reason, some of us are a little too obsessed and feel the need to ALL try to sign up the second they open registration.

 

Is there a TCH plan that can handle a heavy hit load like that? (say 500+ hits at the same time-I really couldn't tell you how many people are actually hitting it in that opening time frame - maybe it's more than that) The service uses a number of databases to display the various competition entries as well as to gather the competitor's info.

 

All of us competition obsessed people are getting really aggrevated with this company as they've been having this problem for over a year now and nothing seems to be getting fixed. If you have a plan that can handle the load, I'd love to recommend you guys to them.

 

~Christy

who happily has two sites here already, and possibly more brewing

[MikeJ]

With that large of a volume in spurts like that with a database heavy site, they will likely have problems anywhere on a shared account. It sounds like what they really need is a dedicated server. Properly configured, that would handle that kind of load without a problem.