we use FB on http://www.arkadia.com/usa/ and it's work ok for now
we have more than 30 000 users / days, and thousands of thousands SQL query every day

>fairly short, transactional operations will be the norm

yes ! write this as a rule !

also unfortunatly firebird have in the current version the probleme
that he can not work on multiple processor (superserver) or if it's can it's on the cost of the memory (classic server)... but the next version of firebird (FB 3, not FB 2.5) will correct this probleme

but even in classic server the perf are ok !

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lee Jenkins <lee@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone have experience with FB on a high volume website?
>
> I'm writing a web based data server that will serve up XML/JSON based OPF
> services for Flex applications I'm starting to build. I'll be deploying
> initially to Virtual Hosted Windows server initially for beta and later on
> moving to dedicated hosted server.
>
> Looks like high volume of fairly short, transactional operations will be the
> norm, mostly CRUDing objects between the Delphi based server and Adobe Flex
> applications.
>
> I'd very much like to stay with Firebird as opposed to other RDBMS available if
> I can.
>
> Advise, suggestions, gotchas, etc are much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Warm Regards,
>
> Lee
>