What is the number of hits a webpage can take without crashing. For instance, I am writing a program where at a given time my program will go to a web page a D/L a small file 10-15k max. Now the question is if 250-300 people using the program at once gets this command to D/L the file (gif,jpg) from my website. Is the HTTP in danger of hanging up or crashing???  Any help would be appreciated.

                               John Stephens

Depends on the WebServer, The speed of the line, for example major sites such as um.... microsoft.com probally takes over 100,000 hits a day, or is capable of taking that much. Depends on the type of webserver, the Hardware used, and the speed of the server. such as an OC-3 (I think thats like several times faster than a T3) but HTTP, and etc , like every other software, its all TCP/IP so I think you question is how much bandwith can your company, or your webserver, and computer handle?

Karl
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   With the softwares available to servers today, it's very rare that you will see one crash due to multiple users.  If you have ever encountered a site which tells you it's busy, or an FTP site which tells you the limit of online users has been reached, then you have encoutered that software which limits the amount of users just so that problem will not occur.

   It all depends on the software, the computer, and the settings.  Some server will not allow more than 64 or 128 users at a time on a page, some will go beyond that.  It all depends.  But I don't think you will crash a sever, not unless it's very badly installed.

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