Please feel free. That would be great! Thanks! Louis -----Original Message----- From: Ask Bjoern Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 9:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Louis Roehrs Subject: Re: New, High Traffic Site running ModPerl On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote: Great story Louis. Would you mind if we put it up on the website when we revise it? - ask > > Hi Doug, > > > > At women.com, we have just completed replacing 2 third party products, one > > Java-based NT IIS SQL 7 Server, the other C based OODBMS based, with a > > mod_perl version of our message boards at Women.com Networks, Inc. > > http://messages.women.com. I'm the lead engineer for the project and chose > > this route after much aggravation with the previous products inability to > > scale. We have also using mod_perl for all of our membership, registration, > > and personalization services for a year. > > > > We are serving more pageviews on our databased-backed web site from one > > server > > than we did with three previously. Not only that, the server is still > > idling. The load tests are impressive, the producers are happy, the > > engineers can add new features > > easily, the sales team is thrilled, and, best of all, the users are stunned > > at the speed of the system! > > > > This baby is meant to scale better than any so-called "distributed web > > application > > server" nightmare. > > > > The system is running on Solaris and *undisclosable* highly scalable SQL > > database server. > > > > Thanks! > > Louis Roehrs > > > > > > ------------------------ > > Louis Roehrs > > Senior Engineer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Internet Technology Group > > Women.com Networks, Inc. > > http://www.women.com > > 650 378-6507 > > > > -- ask bjoern hansen - <http://www.netcetera.dk/~ask/> more than 60M impressions per day, <http://valueclick.com>