[Rails] Re: ROR performance for milions pageviews/month

[Tom Lobato]

Hi all! Thank you very much for the replys, all util information for my decisions. As Chris noted: - My first post need to be fine tuned. Until next monday I will post the answers for the three questions (actual hardware, app type and access peak/average relation). - I`m most interested in knowing whether or not a Rails equivalent to current ASP application (and the new app that will be developted) will be capable of running on the same hardware and infrastructure as my existing setup with approximately the same resource requirements and performance. For now, I can make only a little fine tune: I said one milion pageviews, but it is not exact, because 50% of the pageviews are consumed by the forum, and the new rails site won`t include the forum, rather we will use Vbulletin or Jive SBS. Also, the rest 50% pageviews are consumed partially by static content. Regarding hardware, I already use slicehost for some projects and like it. I`am thinking about to use 2GB slice: Plan RAM Storage BW Monthly Cost 2GB slice 2048MB 80GB 800GB $130 from http://www.slicehost.com/ Of course, it is just a possibility, since this decision depends strongly of the research I`m doing now (including your replys). Tom Lobato Chris Kottom escreveu: Hi Tom, Just to fine tune your original question, you're probably most interested in knowing whether or not a Rails equivalent to your current ASP application will be capable of running on the same hardware and infrastructure as your existing setup with approximately the same resource requirements and performance.  If I were sitting down with you as a consultant, I would immediately ask the following questions: What does your current hardware and infrastructure solution look like?  (i.e. number and type of servers, where hosted, etc.) What does your application look like?  (i.e. mostly static content, dynamic application functionality, little/lots of Ajax, etc.) How much higher is your peak load than your average load?  (i.e. 10x, 50x, 100x, etc.) Without that information, you're going to get a lot of answers about how Rails scales well without really knowing whether or not Rails will scale well for you.  However, if we assume a peak load somewhere between 10x and 20x, you're talking about something on the order of a few hundred requests per minute which is not such a high demand to place on a basic Rails app running on a single recent model server, especially if you're able to implement some form of caching. On Apr 14, 1:26 pm, Tom Lobato <tomlob...@gmail.com> wrote: >   Hi all! > >   I`ll rewrite a 10 years old site, written in asp/mysql > (www.motonline.com.br). Now it has one milion page views a month, and > we can hope it grows after rewrite. Well, I know several ror sites, > but have no idea about its access stats. I already use ror for smaller > projects and only need to confirm if ror can satisfy the performance > demands for this. >   Can you comment about the ror performance for such a page view scale > and/or point to some cases or statistics from existing sites? > >  Thank you, >  Tom Lobato --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---