For my Electrical Engineering summer research project we're using a single mysql server and multiple iPhones. The iPhones are going to collect data and send it to the server which will populate the database with the data. I am new to socket/network programming so I need some pointers to my proposed concept.
The server (C++ program) will be listening to a port that multiple clients are going to connect too. The clients are going to send location information and a maximum of 250 character message or search string. the server will return a status message or results from the query. To ensure that the server responds to each client as close to real time (connection speed ignored) would i create a separate thread for each connection or a completely new forked process. Right now we expect at least a maximum of a hundred connections at once in the future we expect a couple thousand. would that be the best way to handle the traffic load on a single dual core server for a hundred connections.
