title: how to handle 2000+ requests/sec on tomcat?
body: <p>I am developing an SMS application in Java. My clients send queries via SMS which will be forwarded to my server in the form of http requests through SMS Gateway. Now my app processes the requests and sends back responses to clients again through SMS Gateway. Maximum only 300 characters are sent as response. I'm expecting very high traffic (2000 requests/sec). I wanted to host my application with some webhosting company (considering mochahost). What factors should I consider before hosting (interms of RAM, CPU, etc) and also what shall be the major bottlenecks? Can dedicated tomcat server handle such high traffic if tuned properly? What are your suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>There is no database interaction (I'm only using Java heap memory). I ran a test with JMeter(100 requests/sec). My heap memory usage was 35MB and average response time was 532ms.And also i'm not using any session variables.</p>