How To Calculate Capacity?

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The web hosting thread below was started by kwanbis on 2010-03-22 12:25:32:

I want to start developing custom web sites (applications), for customers.

I’m just at the research stage, and i have only done basic web pages in the past.

I always wondered how to calculate the bandwidth and number of concurrent connections.

Let me explain, lets say i create a web page for a customer, and i host it on a server (managed or not), at the beginning, i only get 10 connections per hour, but then, after a post on slashdot, we get 100.000 per minute.

How can i anticipate that? Thanks.

EDIT: is there any company that offers a "on demand" (growing/shrinking) capacity servers? Meaning, i start with x RAM, x Bandwith, x Concurrent connections, and if there is more need, i’m upgraded automatically?

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