High-traffic slowness due to "number of connections" on Windows 2003 w CF MX 6.1?
 

We sometimes get some TV exposure and get huge volumes of Web site traffic at those times. When we do, our Web site slows down significantly and takes 10 to 15 seconds to load pages that normally just take a couple seconds.

Our bandwidth is excellent. We've tested that. Our hardware, servers, routers, etc. is up to the task. The servers and the database server rarely get above 50% CPU usage.

We think that when we get slammed with traffic the thing that is causing the slowness is the "number of connections"

We are running our servers on Windows 2003 Advanced server, and we are running Cold Fusion MX 6.1.

I guess there is some limitation in Cold Fusion or in Windows 2003 server or in Java (which is the engine behind the new Cold Fusion) or somewhere that limits the number of connections or something.

Does anyone have some knowledge and/or experience with this?

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It's not Win2003 AS, only the "Home" versions and XP Pro and Win2k pro limit your connections to 10 incoming. Any MS Windows product that has Server (including Advanced, & data center) tacked on the end will not limit your incoming (or outgoing) connections.

Nature of the beast...

Not sure on the Java, as for the CF MX, I would look there, we were running Flash MX and remoting and ran into some congestion probs of our own.


hth...

I would love to switch to FreeBSD but it ain't happening. The company owner won't go for it because we don't have any Unix experise in-house so I have to suffer managing the IT department with Microsoft servers.

There must be a way to configure Microsoft servers to handle large traffic loads though. We have enough hardware to run NASA (an exageration); we should be able to handle the number of people visiting if we have things configured correctly.

Thanks for the suggestions. I welcome more if anyone has any ideas. ?