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.htaccess limits
I was just hired by a client to do a password protection script of sorts. Authentication is handled by .htaccess. I was not informed of how much traffic this guy pushes before I did the job. Now come to find out, he has had around 1500 people join in the last 24 hours and expects more when he actually starts putting some serious traffic through the script. My question is how many entries can .htaccess deal with? After all, a .htpasswd file is just a text file. What are some other alternatives to standard .htaccess?
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Re: [BennyHill] .htaccess limits In reply to
This is a really big UK investor website:

http://www.iii.co.uk/

Their portfolio section uses htaccess and they have thousands and thousands of members so I don't think there will be a problem.
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Re: [BennyHill] .htaccess limits In reply to
I've had a site I wrote a script for have 200k+ members, and its still rising. There has been a slow down in login time at busy periods, but nothing thats noticable.

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