IIS Capacity

[mch]

Does anyone know the IIS limitation in relation to the numbers of users it can handle?
I have a system which could have close to 1000 people at anytime. I installed IIS XP version, but not sure if it will handle that much volume. Or else do you have any sugestion on the server? ASP is the programming language.

Below is a snippet from the IIS help section...

Note IIS for Windows XP Professional is designed for users developing a Web service, for home, or for office use. <b>IIS Professional can only service 10 simultaneous client connections and does not leverage all the features of the server versions.</b> IIS replaces the former default Web service, the Personal Web Service (PWS), on home and professional versions of Windows. PWS cannot be upgraded from previous Windows products.

Thanks

[rdoekes]

If you serving up webpages, the server considers a hit done when all the HTML is send back to the browser. 1000 concurrent hits could mean a lot more people browsing your site. That is serious production.

If you really have that many hits, get some robust server in place, with Windows 2000 server or windows 2003 server with a fast processor and significant memory

These servers can handle this many concurrent users without problems.

Do not even try to do that on a developer's machine.

-Rogier Doekes