On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Ogure Obunga<write2ogush@gmail.com> wrote:
an approximate figure would be the number of persons querying the systems to see the progress of their cases, some dating back in the 80s to date. people in this case is a combination of the general public, lawyers, court staff.
I don't think you'll have a problem with PHP per se.
From a presentation by Cal Hendersen (developer of Flickr which is a PHP application) [http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/uploads/flickr_php.pdf], back in 2004 they were handling:
~25,000 DB transactions/second at peak ~1000 pages per second at peak On a slightly related note, John Adams gave a great presentation at the Velocity 2009 on the challenges of scaling a site (Twitter) to serve millions of users. [http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/detail/7479] ~gms