Hi everybody. Sorry - I've only been loosely monitoring this mailing list so far. I'll do a better job of reading the list now that I'm a TurboGears devotee. :)
I'm happy to provide some stats. http://diggdot.us/ is running on two servers. They are identical single-cpu P4 2.4GHz w/ 1GB RAM. I am running the CherryPy servers as stand-alone (not hanging off Apache or anything) with a threadPool of 10 on each. They share a single MySQL database on one of the servers. I'm using Pound on one server to load-balance across the two boxes, although this hasn't been necessary. The load balancing actually doesn't seem to improve overall performance, but has been really handy when rolling out or testing an update (I can do one server at a time while keeping the site live on the other box). I'm using the CacheFilter since the site's content only updates every 10 minutes at most. Using Apache's ab to load test it, the site can handle about 400 hits/second. Actual traffic has peaked around 10 hits/second. It's leveled off a bit since that initial burst after it was first released (see http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&url=diggdot.us), but it seems like it's got a regular crowd. It's been a blast to work on it. Right now it's a pretty basic site...I've got a few features I'm planning on adding that should show off some of the ajax action and maybe make for a more impressive TurboGears demo. Jeff
