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Is there a maximum number of concurrent users?
Question
What is the maximum number of concurrent users CactuShop will support?
Answer
This depends on a number of factors. Generally, as a rule, we would recommend using CactuShop with Microsoft SQL Server 7 or 2000 for busier sites. In this mode, CactuShop can handle sites with hundreds of thousands of pageviews per month without any problem.
Much depends on the hosting. Dedicated servers will clearly perform better than shared hosting environments since all resources are dedicated to the single web site.
For even busier sites, the database can be installed on a separate machine to the web server, spreading the load between the two parts of the system.
We would not recommend running CactuShop with the MS Access database for sites getting more than 100k page views per month.
MySQL will be somewhere in between.
Note that since the full CactuShop version stores the basket on temporary cookies rather than as session variables, large numbers of users does not eat up server memory in the same way as on most other ASP carts.