How many people can be connected at a time ?

[Jan1980]

Hello, I have a light blog with WorPress in Bluehost, but I'm projecting to set up an e-commerce (books) in the future.

I'd like to know how many people could be connected at the same time in a typical site ?

Let's say you have a standart account, and a not hugely sized database, and usually you receive 8, 9 visitors a day, but suddenly you get 35. Is that many people ?

Sorry if I'm not specific enough : just a begginr :)

Thans very much if someone could answer this.

[redsox9]

35 visitors per day should not burden the server. Much of it has to do with the frequency that requests are made for identical data on your account. For example, if two or three people happen to call for the same page or database simultaneously, it shouldn't be noticed. However, if there are 20-plus calls at once, a page might take longer to load in your browser than normal. Far exceeding that, you face server overload issues.

Bottom line: 35 people visiting your site per day is not an issue. 35 people visiting your site at once is an issue only if all 35 people are making a request for the same data at once, and even at that it might not make much of a difference unless the size of the data request is substantial.

[Jan1980]

Hi Redsox, thanks for the answers, I get now the proportions, is good to know too the case where only one page is requested. Thanks again.