AJAX Applications vs Server Load?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 5, 2005 @11:50AM from the functionality-and-used-clock-cycles-directly-proportional dept.

Squink asks: "I've got the fun job of having to recode a medium sized (500-1000 users) community site from the ground up. For this project, gratuitous use of XMLHttpRequest appears to be in order. However - with the all of the hyperbole surrounding AJAX, I've not been able to find any useful information regarding server load [Apache + MySQL] when using some of the more useful AJAX applications, such as autocomplete. Is this really a non-issue, or are people neglecting to discuss this for fear of popping the Web2.0 bubble?"

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Re:Astounding Conclusions by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-05 12:30 · Score: 1, Funny

it's how "common" works.
Re:As always, it depends by e7 · 2005-12-06 04:10 · Score: 2, Funny

I've been implementing a forum that never reloads.

I have one of those. I also have a server admin that never responds. Not good.

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