How many requests per seconds can Linux hosting support [closed]

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I am writing network game. Suppose there are 500 users. Each user sends one HTTP Get request each 5 seconds. So I have 100 requests per second. Is it a big digit? Ansi C Linux cgi-bin program works on the server side. Each request reads/writes about 100 byte from 2-3 files.

How many requests can Linux server support? Can someone recommend me fast Linux hosting? Thanks!

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The limitations of the Linux operating system itself are in order of several thousand connections at time, but it is less clear how fast they could be serviced. A dedicated not old web server with wiki engine using database backend can easily service about ten requests per second and probably more.