I am writing network game. Suppose there are 500 users. Each user sends one HTTP Get request each 5 seconds. So I have 100 requests per second. Is it a big digit? Ansi C Linux cgi-bin program works on the server side. Each request reads/writes about 100 byte from 2-3 files.
How many requests can Linux server support? Can someone recommend me fast Linux hosting? Thanks!
The limitations of the Linux operating system itself are in order of several thousand connections at time, but it is less clear how fast they could be serviced. A dedicated not old web server with wiki engine using database backend can easily service about ten requests per second and probably more.