Re: how many requests can php serve?

Andy wrote:

ok .. you are right. But how about an average.. between 20 users per minute or similar is this a common rate on this data? : Is there something like a benchmark available on such thing? Apache comes with ab for load testing. Maybe that will provide you with a means of making meaningful comparisons. There will be a "php" aspect to it, php opposed to say 3-tier java, but also things like is php a cgi, apache module or actually compiled into apache.

When I hear of sites "going down" I perhaps incorrectly start saying there is something wrong. They should get slower but with connection throttling etc they should never actually crash. Or am I in WonderWorld? HTH Chris