Fwd: RE: Scalability

>Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:57:37 -0700
>To: "David Clapper" <dclapper(at)clioassociates.com>
>From: Ben Ocean <beno(at)cnw.com>
>Subject: RE: Scalability
>
>At 01:43 PM 6/14/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>Hi Ben,
>>
>>Is that really what they mean by "scalability"?  Or are they
>>concerned that when they start getting zillions of hits, the
>>site can be scaled (quickly) to handle it?
>
>Ohhh, yeah, probably right, Dave. So, how does one handle site design for 
>scalability for zillions of hits? In fact, perhaps you (or someone) would 
>care to address *both* questions (the other being, How to design a site 
>for ease of scaling all components equally to fit and fill all size 
>monitors and resolutions?). TIA,
>scalin' BenO
>
>>David Clapper
>>
>>
>> >--- Original Message ---
>> >From: Ben Ocean <beno(at)cnw.com>
>> >To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
>> >Date: 6/14/00 6:05:43 PM
>> >
>>
>> >Hi all;
>> >When I made my proposal to the national corp. I mentioned previously,
>>they
>> >asked me if the site would be scalable. Now, I consider scalability
>>to mean
>> >where *all* components scale, like can be seen on this masterpiece:
>> >http://php.net/
>> >where everything scales to the resolution of the user's monitor.
>>Well, as
>> >Steve Serra (and others) would rightly say, that's *way* beyond
>>my ability,
>> >and I told the client that. (It wasn't on his spec sheet, either
>>;-) Then I
>> >got to thinking (uh-oh)...
>> >What if I could build the site such that it could be retro-fitted
>>for
>> >scalability? Is this possible? Is it feasible? Or is it of such
>>a nature,
>> >that it'd be damn near impossible? If it is possible and feasible,
>>how
>> >would I do it? TIA,
>> >BenO
>> >
>> >
>>
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