Autobytel.com runs dozens of webservers in a farm with millions of hits per
day. They have had no problems and are actually converting their stuff to
Fusebox.
ToysRus.com (now all part of amazon.com's backbone), which at one point was
running over 100 webservers handling their traffic at xmas shopping season
was another example. You cynics out there might say that toysrus.com went
down a lot that season. I've heard from the lead programmer there (a one Mr.
Medinets) that the reason they went down is because an Allaire Consultant
came out to their site, checked out the application and recommended a
certain number of CF servers to handle their expected load. Well along came
the expected load and those servers died - too many hits. After getting a
bunch of servers overnighted from Dell, toysrus.com was successful.
Finally, my own little piece of scalable news: I recently built a prom dress
retail site (last fall) in Fusebox and CF. When I finished it, we were
already getting 10,000 hits per day. A few months later (after ads appeared
in seventeen magazine) I reviewed the WebTrends reports and we were
averaging 500,000 hits per day on one dual-proc server. Peak days were 1
million plus hits. Site was always really fast. I recieved no errors for
months from that site.
Therefore, CF and Fusebox are both enterprise worthy.
Check out http://fusebox.org/Files/presentations/Scalability.ppt for Doug
Nottage's (lead tech dude at autobytel) presentation on scalability. It's
very thorough.
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