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multiple submissions across lots of forms - daz1034 - Nov 24th, 2011
First great job on formtools Thank you
I have just started using formtool to centralise multiple forms on lots of sites.
I have read about how formtools scales I just want to dig a bit deeper.
I have moved some of the less active sites on to formtools at the moment its getting around 400 submission a day and it works great.
How many submissions do you think one install of FT can take. We will be looking at upto 2000 submissions a day at the moment.
We have FT on a high end dedicated box just really want to see at what point you think we should split the submissions over to installs of FT.
Thanks again for this great script
RE: multiple submissions across lots of forms - Ben - Dec 4th, 2011
Hi Daz,
Thanks for the post! And sorry I didn't respond sooner - I've been away the past week and I'm just playing catch-up!
2000 submissions a day should be perfectly fine - no problem at all, even if it's a very large form. In terms of the incoming volume, quite honestly, you should be fine with 10's or 100's of thousands a day. Mostly it's just a question of how many are coming in at once, which will load down the server at that particular time.
I once did a site using an old version of FT, where we had about 800 submissions coming in over a 10-20 minute period and there were no problems at all. The server wasn't particularly fast, either (in fact, it was quite slow!), so I really wouldn't worry.
The biggest problem will be the interface: exporting the data, especially. That'll take time, and may well result in time-outs if you're trying to export thousands and thousands of records.
All the best!
- Ben