[NTLUG:Discuss] define heavy web traffic

[Steve Baker]

Think about it like this:  There are 43200 minutes in a 30 day month.  
So 50,000 hits a month is an average of roughly one hit per minute.

Your computer (even if it's a slow old heap of junk) can easily serve up 
a web page with some images on it once a minute!

If you were up to maybe a million hits a month (23 hits per minute) - 
you'd STILL expect an old-ish computer to cope with one page every few 
seconds - but maybe your network bandwidth wouldn't cope...but that 
depends a lot on the nature of "A Hit".  If you have a graphics-heavy 
page then maybe it's going to be a struggle - but if your front page has 
a logo (stored at some reasonable resolution as a GIF or JPEG), a couple 
of paragraphs of text and a menu - then that's not going to be a problem.

When you're up over a million hits per month - start worrying.  
Meanwhile, don't sweat it.

Chris Cox wrote:
> m m wrote:
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>> All:
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>> 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?
>>     
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> 50K a month is light.
>
> Not sure that the generally accepted values would be for
> "medium" or "heavy".
>
> Shoot, 50K a day is probably pretty light even.
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