Hello,
We’re planning a SharePoint application in which more than 20 000 users are supposed to vote for a decision in a short period like 15-20 minutes. I wonder whether SharePoint is able to handle so many requests at a time and, if not, what could be a better solution architecture closely integrated to SharePoint (external storage, stand alone asp.net web app and so on)?
Thanks.
Hey Michael
Depends on many factors, mainly around the hardware and software architecture…
- How may servers in your farm and what spec ..
- Where will the votes be saved to SQL, list, external service (if the latter you might need to consider blocking calls).
- To show the voting pages are you using the Page Output cache. What’s on those pages.
Having said that, 20,000 users over 15 minutes isn’t much tbh. That equates to a low Request / Sec rate and if you utilise the page output cache, it should be ok.
Can you let us know much more detailed information ?