Max Users for Filemaker PHP API

[timhampton]

Hi

 

I'm looking at converting a FM solution that is currently used with around 1000 users into an online service, and I want to keep using FileMaker as the backend.

 

I have read this topic http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/90259-maximum-users-custom-web-publishing-concurrent-sessions/and am still not really clear - is there a limit on the number of PHP users that FileMaker can support.

 

I'm also looking at expanding the solution to be used with a couple of other clients which could see the user count increase 5000+.  (Of course, this is the total number of users, and the active number of users may only be 1/5th to 1/10th of this).

 

 

Thanks

Tim

[doughemi]

Only 200 simultaneous users are supported, but keep in mind that each PHP session is a "user" only when data is actively being uploaded or downloaded from the database.  The fact that the php page is still being viewed on the remote user's browser is irrelevant.

[webko]

To be honest, I've very rarely hit the max number of users, no matter how many are able to access the system - each transaction should only last a matter of milliseconds before finishing...

 

The real world limitation is the load created by those users - the web interactions are single-threaded, which means one large transaction will hold everything else up until it is completed. Get a few of those happening at the same time, and the web site will pretty much grind to a halt.

 

Which then means that good database design is more critical than the actual number of users....