RE: Scalability

Thank you. Very illuminating response!

At 02:32 PM 6/14/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>It is very unlikely that this is what the customer meant.
>
>Scalability typically means that as the number of visitors, hits, orders,
>etc. grows; the number of servers the site runs on, the power of the systems
>it runs on, the strength of the database and so forth, can all grow to meet
>the requirements which the increased traffic will require.
>
>As an excellent example, the Olympics web site or the Academy Awards site
>run fine most of the year but when crunch time hits, they had better be able
>to add three more SGI servers and some disk arrays and meet the demand.
>
>Have you seen those TV commercials where the new startup company has put
>their web site up and they get thirty orders in the first 10 seconds and
>they cheer but then they get 600,000 orders in the next 10 seconds and they
>panic, they only have 30,000 in stock and there is a 40 week lead time ---
>that is not scalable.
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Ocean [mailto:beno(at)cnw.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 11:06 AM
> > To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
> > Subject: Scalability
> >
> >
> > 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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