Are 380 simultaneous connections to a web server much?

[hex1a4]

I can't give specifics on hardware, but it's an account with 1.5TB of storage, 5.2TB of bandwidth, and tons of other features, so it must (or at least should) be good. It is on a shared server.

The server is running RedHat v? and Apache v1.3.x

Thank you.

[opifex]

only your web host knows for sure!
380 connections is really nothing, most servers support at least a thousand per page under normal load conditions.

with all those terrabytes you must be paying a fortune for your hosting!
and your host has the biggest hard drives known to mankind to offer that kind of service on a shared hosting server.

go into your control panel and take a look at what you really have available.

[hex1a4]

380 connections is really nothing, most servers support at least a thousand per page under normal load conditions.

Thanks, although I should have mentioned that this mainly applies to large binary files and not pages. I'm hosting several software mirrors and the server overloads sometimes. This resulted in my host putting a cap on simultaneous connections to the site. I'm now in the process of writing a script to limit simultaneous connections per IP address. Two mirrors, OpenOffice in particular, suffer from abuse; mainly from software pirates in China which add greatly to the number of simultaneous connections.

with all those terrabytes you must be paying a fortune for your hosting!

Not really. Their prices are quite reasonable.

and your host has the biggest hard drives known to mankind to offer that kind of service on a shared hosting server.[/I]

No big drives, just many of them.

go into your control panel and take a look at what you really have available.

I just checked and this is what I've got:

Disk Space Usage
720244.23/2000000 MB
I'm supposed to have 1500000 MB of storage but they had some hardware problems and I guess they upgraded me. Haven't noticed until now.

Monthly Bandwidth Transfer
136406.83/5200000 MB

[opifex]

ok. enjoy.