Is 4000 users too high a number for filePro

[Lerebours, Jose]

A question of scalability has come up and I need to
provide a comprehensive answer.

The question:
How would filePro perform in an environment with 4000
users and what kind of hardware will it need?


Using my current live scenario of an 120 average users
and a CPU load of 0.0 to 3.0 (4 generation old server
w/ 4 500Mhz CPUs & 4GB RAM) I kind of think my existing
server could handle 1000 users w/out a problem (other
than HD space).

That said, 4000 users may not require more than a nicely
juiced-up 4G Server w/ clustered storage capacity to make
sure disk space is not an issue.  Of course, there is the
speed factor (but we know nothing beats filePro on speed).

Of course, there are factors such as

- Network bandwidth
- How is application written
- Anything else I have no knowledge of
- Is it sunny or is it raining 

I can control one but not the others.  I do worry about
filePro standing up to the task of 4000 concurrent users.

I like to see the quote - It seems to me that it would
be wiser to buy fpTech all together.   :)

Regards;


Jose Lerebours