... 10 million hits a day and another that was somewhere around 8 million. One was a WWWC app, the other an ASP classic with VFP COM. Both were able to do their thing with room to spare. The key is not to look at raw numbers but to understand the technology and maximize its use for a given platform and not look at it from a one sided view. You can use almost any technology to make it do what you need especially these days - we're not in the stone age anymore when nobody knew how to do this stuff and had to come up with our own ways of doing things before Microsoft figured out that they needed to do something.

But 10 Million a day is the exception - its a supa duppa enterprise. Most of us are working with web apps that hit counts will measure at 10,000/day with no need to scale much beyond 100,000 hits/day in the fore seeable future.

I understand the importance of scalability in those cases where its needed. But in most cases it not an issue. Sometimes - capacity requirements can be set for years even decades - and by that time - when scalability may be an issue - then what ever the market offers would probably be purchased. Will NET or Win OS be the platform then? Who knows.

The fact is - if you examine capacity - it has remained pretty much the same.Very few at the highend of the demand curve - almost everybody else at the low end. Sure the big guys - like Amazon or Ebay may want to migrate from ASP or JSP to NET. But for most internet business and services - CGI will be enough for quite sometime. When you look out an office window on the mainland - you see a lot more Toyota Carollas than you do Hummers. When the Carolla gets old - usually the owner will simply replace it with a newer Carolla. Excess capacity can be a liabilty. A Carolla tire only costs 30 bucks - a Hummer tire will cost you three hundred. A lot cheaper to maintain the Carolla!





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