Robert, 1 million hits a day on a single CF8 or CF9 box of sufficient hardware is fairly easy to handle. I would want some more redundancy. Having a hot fail over for the CF box and the SQL server would be a good idea.
Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com [email protected] www.trunkful.com On May 7, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Robert Rhodes wrote: > > Thanks. I'll look into that. Being a Windows guy, I am not sure how well > Squid and I would get along. :) > > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> 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:344339 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
