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3.4 million page views per day, 92 M per month, one server and Drupal
by holyver (via)
In this talk, Khalid of 2bits.com, Inc., Inc will talk about a how to scale a Drupal web site with the following statistics.
3.4 million pages per day peak
92 million page views per month
189,650 page views per hour peak
840,000 visits on peak day
22.96 million visits per month
52,747 visits per hour peak
So far, this is the highest traffic a Drupal site gets that we heard of.
What is amazing is that this web site runs on a single mid range server ...
2009
2008
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
by holyver & 23 others, 1 comment
A Web cache sits between one or more Web servers (also known as origin servers) and a client or many clients, and watches requests come by, saving copies of the responses — like HTML pages, images and files (collectively known as representations) — for itself. Then, if there is another request for the same URL, it can use the response that it has, instead of asking the origin server for it again.
How To Optimize Your Site With HTTP Caching | BetterExplained
by holyver & 2 others
Caching is a great example of the ubiquitous time-space tradeoff in programming. You can save time by using space to store results.
In the case of websites, the browser can save a copy of images, stylesheets, javascript or the entire page. The next time the user needs that resource (such as a script or logo that appears on every page), the browser doesn’t have to download it again. Fewer downloads means a faster, happier site.
Cache control header and browser cache behaviours | Inmates Are Running Asylum
by holyver
Vey useful links for cache control and browser behaviors
* Explain of cache control in detail (very nice article! ) http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-http-caching/
* The State of Browser Caching: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2006/05/11/browser_caching
* XMLHttpRequest caching: http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/cache.html
Tools for Performance Tuning and Optimization | 2bits.com, Inc. - Drupal Development, Customization and Consulting
by holyver
When tuning a site's performance, a system administrator needs certain tools to measure and monitor how the site is doing under increasing load, as well as identify where bottlenecks may be.
Linux system performance monitoring tools
On Linux, there are several tools available to you to do this. We describe what we have found as the most helpful in this section.
Tuning the Apache MaxClients parameter | 2bits.com, Inc. - Drupal Development, Customization and Consulting
by holyver
Apache prefork, StartServers, MaxSpareServers and MinSpareServers
In the most common case, you will be using Apache in the prefork mode, meaning one process per connection, with a pool of processes pre-forked to standby for connections. The number of spare processes is defined by the values MaxSpareServers, MinSpareServers, while the number to start is defined by StartServers.
2007
Power PostgreSQL - PerfList
by ogrisel (via)
This is a set of rules of thumb for setting up your PostgreSQL 8.0 server. A lot of the below is based on anecdotal evidence or practical scaling tests; there's a lot about database performance that we, and OSDL, are still working out. However, this should get you started. All information below is useful as of January 12, 2005 and will likely be updated later. Discussions of settings below supercede the recommendations I've made on General Bits.
Surviving 100,000 instant Visitors on a Budget
by holyver (via)
Last Sunday I casually wrote a post about the most common pitfalls in photography. I had written the post a long time ago, but I never put it on this site.
The story ended up on the front page of Digg, stayed there for nearly 12 hours and was picked up by a bunch of secondary sources, resulting in 100,000 Visitors within a day (most of them within the first 12 hours). Trying to keep my server up and alive, I learned a lot about what it takes to keep the server alive, hence I decided to slide a non photography related post in, hopefully giving everyone who finds themselves in a similar situation some points to consider.
Conseils pour l'amélioration des performances InnoDB
by Xavier Lacot & 2 others
Quelques conseils pour améliorer les perfs InnoDB
2006
MySQL : Conseils pour l'amélioration des performances InnoDB
by clochix & 2 others
Conseils pour l'amélioration des performances InnoDB
ProfitPapers | Papers : Performance Tuning Mysql for Load
by springnet & 3 others
On one of the largest Vbulletin based forums I operate we just finished a record month with a little over 217,000 uniques with just shy of half a million total users. As anyone else running a big board knows hitting these types of figures while maintainin
