High End Stores

[w2vy]

I was asked a question yesterday that I could not answer...

 

What DB sizes and max number of visitors(or page hits) per hour

have some of the bigger stores seen using 2.2?

 

I'd also like to know the size of the server in those cases too.

 

I have a customer that is considering converting one of his busy

sites.

 

Tom

[Guest]

One of the sites I have done using osc has at times well over 700 products in the catalogue, and it is not unusual to have more than 100 people (the most we have seen is over 200) people browsing the site for hours at a time when the who's online is checked. It tends to peak a couple of times a week when the subscriber database is emailed to. Generally at any given time there will be at least 5 people browsing when things are quiet.

 

I have gone in and browsed the site, bought items and checked out etc during busy periods and not noticed any decrease in performance. Also, the site has never been down for even 5 minutes due to a problem with osc, which is as good an advertisement for reliability as I can come up with.

 

The box that it is on is nothing particularly special either, it's on a box with a few other sites, but the others are really quite low in volume apart from one forum site which sees about 10,000 posts a month and is continuously being browsed by a handful of logged in users.

 

The specs of the box are,

 

*512mb Ram

*A couple of fast scsi hd's

*Redhat Linux (Not sure which version)

*Apache 1.3.2

*PHP 4.0.6

 

As I said, nothing special.

 

One other thing, I have a good friend who specialises in software and load testing. Before deciding upon osc (exchange project) for this site over 12 months ago, we did some testing using Winrunner (from memory I think it was Winrunner, he has so many test apps I may be wrong). Basically he created about 5 scripts to mimic what customers do, browsing, buying, checking out etc and then we pointed it at our test server and told it to create 50 threads to simulate 50 simultaneous users and then ran it for about 24 hours and we didn't have a problem. Again, the test server we used was quite ordinary.

 

I don't know whether this is the sort of traffic load info you were after, but I hope this info helps you in some way.