Not sure if this is the correct place for this question....

Over on the SMF boards there is some discussion about FireBoard - Kindred (one of the SMF developers) has made a pretty bold statement regarding how many concurrent users FireBoard can handle... I'm very curious about this and would love to know a solid answer - can FireBoard handle 300-500 concurrent users or will it crash ??

here is the post from the SMF boards:
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Re: FireBoard
« Reply #35 on: December 24, 2007, 07:56:10 PM »

actually, cferd, although he was wrong in indicating a huge difference in the TERMS, he was right in the overall sense...

registered users and users concurrently logged in are two completely different things.

One of the forums that I admin has 50,000+ users... and regularly has 300-500 concurrent log-ins. Fireboard would crash with that load...

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Re: FireBoard
« Reply #36 on: Today at 01:50:39 AM »

Kindred,

I am very interested in how you came to the conclusion that FireBoard will crash with 300-500 concurrent log-ins. Did you actually test this using a shared hosting account such as go-daddy or 1&1 ? If this is true, Is there a reason why FireBoard can't fix this problem in a future release ? Does it have something to do with being part of joomla ?

Also, do you know if it will crash with 300 concurrent log-ins if the site were hosted on a dedicated server instead of a shared hosting account?

I am very curious about this because the site I plan to use with FireBoard will definitly be getting 100 or more concurrent log-ins on a regular basis with CB also..

Thanks