Limit concurrent access to a site

[pthes]

I've designed a survey that good in that it generated a lot of traffic but bad because it crashed our webhosting provider's server.

What I thougt might be a good workaround is to limit the number of users that can be active in the survey at any given point in time. For example, if I set the limit to ten, then the eleventh person would get a message that says "we're busy, wait a few minutes" rather than being directed to the survey.

Any suggestions as to whether this is a good idea and or how to implement it?

[chads2k2]

Learn to cut your coding style down...make it easier for your db to function and also use multi stringed tables.... also you can just drop your host and get a better one! I haven't had this problem personally but then again I don't do a lot of surveys. Sorry can't be more help than that. Take care!