Re: FN-FORUM: Dedicated linux hosting query

date posted 21st August 2003 15:59


On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 03:43 PM, Paul Civati wrote:

> You don't have concurrent connections unless you're talking about the
> database. When you browse a web site then each object (for which I am
> talking about an html file, or a gif, or a jpg) is one TCP connection
> that is opened, data transfered, and then closed.

...except if he's using HTTP keep-alives. Which he almost certainly is,
as he stated he's using Apache, and Apache has supported keep-alives
for yonks.

(a connection is kept open briefly to see if additional requests are
about to be made. this saves the overhead of restablishing a connection
at a tcp level. i wish i had some sock puppets to demonstrate with.
sock puppets rule.)

regardless, it's all smells like a crock of poop. ask them to define a
concurrent connection in as much technical detail as they can. if you
averaged 100 HTTP requests/second, you'd be using more than 10Gb/month.

...j



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