Re: Scalability

Thank you: another insightful answer!
BenO

At 05:54 PM 6/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Ben,
>
>Well, unfortunately there's no answer (from my perspective) to the
>capacity scalability issue that could be put into an e-mail.  To
>determine this requires questioning and analysis of the proposed
>situation (e.g., how many hits per time slice? how much information is
>being transferred per hit?), comparison with the software and hardware
>technologies you're planning to use (e.g., CGI (not terribly scalable);
>MS DNA or a corresponding C++/Java environment (more scalable)), and so
>on to enable you to do viable capacity planning and application design.
>
>There is a book on this - "Capacity Planning for Web Performance" by
>Menasce and Almeida - which isn't too bad (although a bit dated around
>specifics, the concepts are still valid).  The major vendors (MS, IBM,
>Sun, Compaq) also have capacity planning information on their websites.
>
>Re the "screen scalability" issue - I think there are others on this
>discussion group who are much more competent to deal with that than I
>am.
>
>HTH ... .
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ben Ocean <beno(at)cnw.com>
>To: David Clapper <dclapper(at)clioassociates.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 4:57 PM
>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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