>Shane, funny you ask this. I just posted a FAQ on VFP capacity which includes two reference to VFP internet servers. Click on "new" and scroll to the bottom.
>From Rick Strahl's site he was peaking at 500,000+ per day with VFP/NT and IIS.


Whoa, hold on there <s>...

First off that was three years ago <s>... a lot has changed since then both in terms of hardware and the software that run these types of things. Second that
number was just based on the traffic that we saw at the time based on a
specific application. Servers were neither peaked nor did they max the line
or hardware software combination.

The actual peek recorded by a VFP application on the
Web that I was involved with was 1.4 million VFP backend hits (3.8 million
total page hits, 10.5 million total hits) on 3 machines running at approcimately 50% utilization during peak spikes of operation.

You can't put a flat number on any of this - IIS can serve millions of
static pages a day. VFP in an optimal environment can also serve millions
of requests a day even on a single box (yes, I have tested this in my
lab here using Web Connection - ASP will be considerably worse), although
real life scenarios are most likely going to involve multiple machines
running in a Web farm/server pool with load balancing.

The actual load on the server determines your actual throughput.

However, I will say that NT can and does serve as a high end enterprise
platform for eCommerce solutions. THere are large numbers of high end
(visible) sites that are running NT these days and they're increasing
all the time.

Don't know if you saw it, but Web server comparisons of various platforms
and OS's put NT at or very near the top in most scenarios and almost always
on top when application services were involved...