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Mark Ismail
Mark Ismail

Reputation: 720

Number of users to a webpage

I have a webpage that reads data from an Access file (Microsoft Access file) on my website. How many users can visit that page at the same time?

Would the page crash at some time if too many users tried to visit that page at the same time? Is it better to use a PHP file that reads data from a text file or its just the same?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 777

Answers (2)

leonm
leonm

Reputation: 6484

There are many variables that influence how many people can simultaneousness use your website (loosely known as scalability), including your database, hardware, network, caching and more. And yes, at some point your performance will degrade if more and more users access the page.

It would be really hard to say from the information you provided how scalable your website is. PHP could be faster but not necessarily. Always be skeptical about technologies that promise superior performance.

For the moment your best option is to try and estimate how many concurrent users you are expecting and then use a load testing tool like JMeter, Apache Bench or others to assess if you're website will stand up to the load.

Upvotes: 1

Mark Ismail
Mark Ismail

Reputation: 720

It turns out that my website was hosted on Domain.com. Domain.com say that I have unlimited bandwidth frequency. But in reality I don't.

My website was crashing, because it was hosted with thousands of websites on the same server. So the bandwidth is limited even though it says unlimited. My only solution was to host my website on a VPS. Basically hosting my website on a server by itself.

Upvotes: 0

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