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Horsepower

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I keep my website on server space supplied by a vendor. I was told that it could handle up to 1000 simultaneous hits. Over the weekend, I had a webcam uploading an image every 15 seconds and 100 or so people viewing that image in their browser (with a Java applet that refreshed it). It took down the server. The vendor'e explanation was: "The web cam is not streaming, but it is concentrating lots of traffic in a short amount of time which can overload the server. Especially because this is images, requests take longer to load than normal html pages." Does this make sense?
 
actually you webcam is streaming in a sense, it should (if works like most) be continuously uploading newer images to the server, now these 100 people viewing this are no different then 100 people every 5 seconds hitting a website with a few graphics. 1000 people hitting a website at the same time would cause more traffic then this. your host is making an excuse plain and simple.
 
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