In addition to other comments, it might be worth spending a minute reading up on Squid:
http://www.squid-cache.org/ Caching some or all of the site could mean you can do the entire thing with just 2 CF machines. In my experience, the bottleneck for Squid is not the OS or Squid itself, but the capacity of the network cards in the machine. It can handle ALOT of traffic. The learning curve required to implement this may or may not be within your time window. -Cameron On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Rob Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I have been a lurker on this board for a while, and never thought I was > qualified enough to offer opinions. Well, that has not changed. > > But now I could really use some advice on how to gear up quickly to handle a > ton of traffic on a cf9 site. > > I can't really go into the details, but I have just inherited a cf9/SQL > server site that gets well over a million page views per day. It was > previously running on multiple servers using shared array. > > It's an impossible task, but I have to have this up and running this weekend. > So, I don't have any time or money for complex solutions. I just need to > this all to stay up long enough to figure out a proper plan. > > Until then, here is my working plan. Please tell me what you think. > > I have 4 cf9 standard licences, and four servers running win2k3 x86 (fairly > fast processors and 4gb ram each). I have a fifth win2k3 server x64 running > SQL Server 2005. These servetrs are recent installs and do not have any > other sites on them. > > My plan is to load the site on all four servers, all pointing to the same > database server (it appears much of the queries in the site are cached) > > I would then set up round-robin DNS to do the poor-mans load distribution. > > Most importantly I am hoping some of the gurus here might have some jvm > tuning suggestions to help handle the load. > > Ok let me have it. Is there any hope, or am I just hopelessly screwed? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344334 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
