Thanks for the pointer, that greatly addressed my pain point. Thanx again, Sachin
On 23-Feb-09, at 20:34, Carl Fyffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your best bet is to use EC2 to benchmark your solution. You can load > up your app on a couple of servers and use apache bench to determine > how many requests can be handled. It will only cost you a couple of > bucks and you can go back to the client with real numbers and say, we > are going to need x number of servers. It would probably be better to > use a tool better than apache bench, but it is probably good enough. > > On 2/24/09, Sachin Kale <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi bruno, >> Thanks for insights. >> >> It would be more helpfull if you can share hardware configuration >> that >> curbly uses. I have a requirement where site should sustain traffic >> of >> 30000 hits per day, I am not able to figure out hardware estimation >> for it. Is there a pointer for hardware estimation for rails site? >> >> Thanks, >> Sachin >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 23-Feb-09, at 9:43, Bruno Bornsztein <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Andrei >>> >>> I wasn't sure to post this in the group or not. Basically, I would >>> like to ask you for some tips on how to handle scalability as far as >>> the right hosting choice. I noticed that some of your sites run on >>> Amazon EC2. What other hosting companies do you use? How do you >>> handle scalability as far as load balancing and with respect to >>> Community Engine? >>> >>> I hope this won't take too much of your time and if you wish, you >>> can post your answer to the community. >>> >>> I use EC2 for most of my sites, and RailsMachine for Curbly. Lately >>> I've begun switching all the sites over to Passenger, so I don't >>> have to worry about load balancing between mongrels. To be quite >>> honest, performance testing hasn't really been done on CE (anybody >>> want to help?!), so I can't give you a lot of specifics. There's a >>> little bit of caching built in to the system, and it holds up >>> tolerably well for my purposes (Curbly gets >500,000 pageviews per >>> month). >>> >>> Scaling with CE isn't any different from scaling any other Rails >>> app: a good place to start is NewRelic's Scaling Rails series. >>> Hope that helps, >>> Bruno >>> >>>> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
