Can Code Igniter handle a large load?

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
The traffic an application can handle greatly depends on the application, and only for a very small part on the underlying framework.

One badly written query will already cost you more processing time then the time spent in the framework code.

I run applications with more traffic that talk to a MySQL running in a 2Gb 2vCPU VM without problems. But these are specifically written for high-loads, and highly optimized. I've also seen application that were written so badly that they crumbled under very little load.

So I think it's going to be a challenge to get any decent figures that might be applicable to your specific situation.