>Take a look at the examples on Rick's site at http://www.west-wind.com/Articles.asp In particular the case study about Surplus Direct. He was getting a few hundred thousand database hits per day.

The link Rick has is busted, here is the case study
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/prodinfo/casestudies/surplus.asp

Maybe someone could forward this to him so he can fix it on the articles page.