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5answers
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Most common website scalability pitfalls

We are designing a website/web application where we hope to to achieve high user counts and, in general, lots of use. More specifically, we intend to be using PHP as the programming/scripting language ...
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3answers
241 views

Scaling Up applications

What should I consider when taking an application (web) from a few users to hundreds or thousands? Basically, what should I be considering when thinking about escalating?
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1answer
107 views

How to find a scaling expert?

The web application is in ASP.NET and Sql Server and is growing much faster than anticipated. Where can I find an expert who has previously had experience of going from a small website to solution ...
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5answers
878 views

Are web applications limited by the amount of memory or by the speed of the database server on the server side?

Many web sites mostly only do CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations to the database for different URLs. Suppose that we have a 3-tier solution with the database server on a dedicated server ...
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2answers
175 views

Proper way to measure the scalability of web Application

Let's say that I have a web Application where i'm going to have 300 users and each one have to see data on real time, imagine that each client make an ajax call to the server to see in real time ...