[NTLUG:Discuss] define heavy web traffic

[Patrick R. Michaud]

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