multiple submissions across lots of forms

[daz1034]

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

[Ben]

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