On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just been running nginx -> paster for personal projects & > internal dev. We're looking to launch a 100k requests/day min project > here, and I've got a client who I've sold onto Pylons and is looking > at building their entire web-service startup on it. Apache is pretty > much out-of-the-question... they'll need too many servers to handle > it's memory hogging and speed limitations
One thing to keep in mind is that new sites often have unrealistic assumptions about their growth and the hardware required for it. A video site has special requirements due to the huge files it handles, but for ordinary sites with text and JPGs and documents up to 15 MB each, 100,000 requests/day is not that many. That's 4166/hour or 70/minute. Any non-anemic server can do that in its sleep. Our server has two sites each doing more than that several times a day, plus three smaller sites. Granted, the server is ridiculously overpowered: 2 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, Ubuntu 7.10. But one site inefficiently duplicates a 120 MB object database per process (and runs 3 processes minimum, so that's 240 MB overhead), so that's where some of the memory is going. The server load right now is 0.11; free memory is 18 MB (+269 MB in discardable buffers and 1.2 GB "cached"). That's with Apache -> scgi -> Quixote for the largest site and Apache -> mod_proxy -> PasteHTTPServer -> Pylons for some of the others. I'm migrating all the sites to Pylons one by one. We use PHP only for PHPMyAdmin, for which I've been unable to find an adequate alternative. We use it only so our non-technical appadmins can make occasional changes and reports. -- Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
