Ugh, that's really dated <g>... Surplus actually ran in excess of 4 million backend hits a day on 2 dual processor Pentium Pro (<g>) machines back in 1996. Hardware obviously has made those numbers pale...

Still, I don't know of any other really large sites on that scale (although there are a few that are running over 500 hundred thousand hits a day), but I know of a couple companies that have done load testing of their apps into close to 10 million hits a day on single quad box.

The Surplus site at the time was a Microsoft case study and I wrote up some of the design and layout issues in two articles:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/LargeWeb/

For Load Balancing there's additional information in the Web Connection documentation and here:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/loadbalancing/NetworkLoadBalancingWindows2003.asp

which I've used in several applications.

Michel, you should ask this on the West Wind message board where people using the product actually hang out - you'll get more live feedback there most likely.

+++ Rick ---



>Hi Michel,
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>>I need some stats on WWC. Basically, I would like to know what is the most robust application ever installed about WWC and VFP in regards to the traffic load. What kind of server infrastructure was in place? How many servers are used? How many database hits per second. I am interested in knowing what kind of application and services were provided on that Web site.
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>I found this in the WWC documentation at http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/docs/_S8G10V50I.htm:
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>Web Connection has been field tested on a number of high volume sites. Web Connection has been run at over 900,000+ requests per day at www.surplusauction.com and not even close to maxing out. This busy site is one of the top commercial sites on the Internet.