Maybe it's obvious, but the best way to find out what to do to make your wepage faster is to get it under load (with "ab" for example) and raise the load until your server gives up. Now find out why he gave up and fix it. Do this as long you think you need more pageviews per second...
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:41 AM, RichardAtHome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > We are about to start developing a web application (flash/php) that is > quite likely to attract the Digg/Reddit crowd. > > The CakePHP side of things is pretty minimal (5-10 static pages, 5-10 > dynamic pages, 4 or 5 database tables, basic authentication and > sessions). > > Does anyone have any tips, techniques or experience about best > practices for managing a potentially large visitor spike without the > box catching fire? > > Thanks in advance. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---