RE: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a side note, there's the issue of caching.  If you're talking about HTTP
304 responses (cached) as opposed to HTTP 200 (found and sent) responses,
then your hit total might be much, much higher.  But for those situations,
the load is negligible on the machine, and I suspect any HTTP server could
handle thousands of those requests a second.

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta
>
> I find this difficult to believe.  3200 per second?  What size is your
> response?  Let's say it's trivial, only 1KB - that's 25MBit/sec, more than
> 10 times T1 speed.  You have that kind of pipeline to the
> Internet?  And if
> your response is anything like a normal page, say 5KB without graphics,
> you're talking over 100MBit/sec, or more than double a dedicated T3
> connection.  You have perhaps multiple T3 lines?  With graphics it quickly
> escalates, of course, to T4 and above.
>
> I think you might want to review your numbers one more time.
>
> Joe
>
> P.S. The first page I clicked to on Seta Corporation was 14KB without
> graphics.  The graphics were another 40KB.  I don't know how
> large the Flash
> amimation was, but even at a paltry 50KB total, to support 3200 hits a
> second, we're talking well over 1GBit/sec, or 25 dedicated T3 lines, or 4
> dedicated T4 lines, or roughly twice the bandwidth of the TAT-9
> transatlantic fiberoptic cable.