I have to build a web application that's similar to a "branch/store locater". A user types in his address and the web application will plot nearby stores on a map. One of the requirements is: "The web application must support 100 simultaneous users and up to 5GB/day transfer volume." Much of the transferred data will be text and GUI ...
We have a new project for a web app that will display banners ads on websites (as a network) and our estimate is for it to handle 20 to 40 billion impressions a month. Our current language is in ASP...but are moving to PHP. Does PHP 5 has its limit with scaling web application? Or, should I have our team invest in picking up JSP? Or, i...
I'm currently in the pre-planning stages of a solo web application development project for university, which has about a year as time constraint. The application will have certain wiki-like features and may end up getting a high volume of traffic in the future, which is why whichever language and framework I choose must have as priority ...
i am working on a website which deploy on web farms to serve high traffic. where should i store user uploaded files? is it wise to store uploaded files in the file system of the same website and synchronize these files in all web servers(web farm)? or should i use another server to store all uploaded files in this server to store files i...
We're using a Squid cache to off-load traffic from our web servers, ie. it's setup as a reverse-proxy responding to inbound requests before they hit our web servers. When we get blitzed with concurrent requests for the same request that's not in the cache, Squid proxies all the requests through to our web ("origin") servers. For us, thi...
Hi guys, I want to build a high traffic video site, which has many videos and visitors, using ASP.NET. But I have no experience of high traffic sites and video sites. Anyone can give me some stuff to read or some keywords for me to google? In the performance point of view. Many thanks :) UPDATE: I said our site is similar to Youtube...