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Walden H. Leverich skrev:
I have in the last few months been the user of a high -profile, high-traffic web site
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Essentially I'd like to avoid a similar situation where I'm responsible
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If there are no immediate brickwalls ahead in the planned scenario, then keep it simple. I.e. a connection per user.

I'm not trying to put words in other people's mouths, but I'm not sure your conclusions are supported by the conversation. I think the big question is, what's "high-traffic". I think there is agreement that in low-traffic sites the one-connection-per-user approach works. I know I agree with that, and I'm a proponent of not doing sites that way :-). I think there is also agreement that the one-connection-per-user approach would _not_ work for mega-traffic sites like Amazon, Facebook or MySpace. So the question is, what's "high-traffic"? Is it 100 simultaneous users? Nope. 1000? Maybe... 10,000 Probably...
Perhaps "high traffic" could be defined as "enough to hit a limit in the KISS solution"?

Whatever limit has been reached varies, but in my experience it is typically the response time in the database.

/Thorbjørn

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