Hy Will, thanks to your response. My question was not only concerning Velocity but also about Java in General in Comparison to PHP. I hope that there are some Developers who have user Java and Velocity in realy huge sites.
Thanks Dominik Am Thursday 13 April 2006 01:33 schrieb Will Glass-Husain: > Hi Dominik, > > Wow, that's a busy site. > > The short answer is that writing a high performance application is > mostly about architecture and only partially about language. If you > read the pages and pages of comments on that famous post, the > intelligent comments mostly boil down to that response. Caching is > critical, (for both database queries and page generation), as is good > database design. > > Velocity is unlikely to be a significant part of your bottleneck as > performance with template caching turned on is quite fast. > > WILL > > On 4/12/06, Dominik Bruhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hy, > > I currently got a online-community running on a > > PHP-Bulletin-Board-Software. I didn't write the software myself but I > > modified it over the time so the code grew and became quite unreadable, > > hard to understand and also slow. > > > > Some data for the site: > > 300Users online at the same time > > 30661 visitors per day > > 10GB Traffic per day > > > > The site is currently running on two servers, one for the dynamic > > PHP-Scripts and one for the Database (MySQL) and the static content. > > > > I was thinking about a complete rewrite for a long time and now I started > > to plan it more detailed. As I have used Velocity and Java for another > > (but quite small) project this was what first came into my mind. I also > > hoped for some speed increases from a Java-Application due to the fact > > that is possible to cache the Data-Base Data and save Queries to the DB. > > I'm also thinking about the time when there might be more than one server > > needed for the site (due to increasing visitors). > > My PHP and Java knowledeges are about equal, but I have never done such a > > big project in Java (neither in PHP) and so i'm searching for help. > > > > On my search through the internet I found a webpage where they told that > > friendster (really big site) switched from java to PHP due to > > performance. This made me think about my decision. > > http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/22_Friendster_goes_PHP.html > > > > I fear programming the whole Website in Java and then recognizing that > > its much to slow for this purpose. Thats why I write to this mailinglist. > > Are there any people who made a similar step from php to java and can > > tell about performance gains or looses. > > > > Can anybody else tell me where there are differences and how the > > influence the performance. > > > > Thanks > > TO > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Forio Business Simulations > > Will Glass-Husain > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.forio.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
