He estimates that this had increased to 200 TPS, across all 10 servers at that time. TPS is steadily approaching the thousand TPS threshold at peak hour of the week. The Internet brings a whole new appreciation for the importance of good capacity planning. It is extremely important to us to always stay ahead of the growth of the business. Reliability Implement lots of fail-over and redundancy.
Uptime is critical .
Make sure you have a way out if something does go wrong. Your database back-end needs to be able to scale. Oracle on UNIX is a great combination. Build for Success Thinking big saves lots of time and trouble in the long run. Reducing Downtime While many issues affecting availability may stem from hardware or software problems, Rose and his team are convinced that human error causes the most problems.