[NFBCS] hosting a website for a semi large quantity of users in a short period of time

[Aaron Cannon]

Hi.

No shame in using Flask. It's a perfectly good framework for a small
project like this. Django would probably be overkill.

As for your question, it's unlikely that any reasonably modern server would
even blink at those numbers. So grab yourself a gig of ram, and don't worry
about it. As long as your provider is giving you a standard amount of CPU
with that, you'll be fine.

But if you want to be absolutely certain, you can use any number of http
benchmarking tools to see how many visitors it would take to knock things
over. Worst case scenario, users could get queued up a bit, and have to
wait a couple seconds before their request is serviced, but based on your
numbers, that sounds unlikely.

Good luck.

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 14:04 Derrick Day via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello, my name is Derrick day. I would like to preface all of this by
> saying that I am a highschool, 11th grade, 16 year old computer science
> student and so I may ask a question in this email that seems dumb to all of
> you more experienced system admins and professionals, but I just don’t want
> to embarrass myself in my project, so I figured I would run it by some
> experts. I am leading a fund razer for my local NFB chapter where I made a
> scavenger hunt website. People can go to the different destinations on the
> list, and then upload a picture of their group at the destination. All of
> that is created, and it is using the flask framework with python as its
> backend. Don’t make fun of me too hard, I know Django is better, but I
> don’t know how to use it super well yet and they told me about this last
> week, with a finish date of the 28th of this month. I have gotten that site
> to run on an apache server through a WSGI broker, however I’m concerned
> about server resources. I’m expecting anywhere from 4-600 users over the
> span of 3 days, and I don’t want the server to get overloaded and go down
> under the stress of peak utilization. According to my calculations, I would
> statistically have 16.6 or 17 users using my site concurrently, so What
> would be your suggestions when it comes to required server resources? Is it
> better to get one stronger server with more processing ability and a higher
> amount of RAM, or to get 2-3 smaller servers? If it’s the latter, what is
> the best way to load balance between the different hosting servers and make
> it so the load is distributed? I thank you all for your help, you have no
> idea how amazing and awesome it is to have a group that I can send an email
> to for assistance and incite about these things. Again, I’m sorry if this
> matter seems frivolous, I hope to be in a place one day where this will be
> a mundane task for me as well. I look forward to your responses, and I hope
> you all have a merry Christmas or otherwise a happy holiday season.
>
> Thanks,
> Derrick C. Day
>
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