People, > In general I think your point is valid. Just remember that it probably > also matters how you count page views. Because technically images are a > separate page (and this thread did discuss serving up images). So if > there are 20 graphics on a specific page, that is 20 server hits just > for that one page.
Also, there's bots and screen-scrapers and RSS, web e-mails, and web services and many other things which create hits but are not "people". I'm currently working on clickstream for a site which is nowhere in the top 100, and is getting 3 million real hits a day ... and we know for a fact that at least 1/4 of that is bots. Regardless, the strategy you should be employing for a high traffic site is that if your users hit the database for anything other than direct interaction (like filling out a webform) then you're lost. Use memcached, squid, lighttpd caching, ASP.NET caching, pools, etc. Keep the load off the database except for the stuff that only the database can do. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
