what website are we talking about?
ibsys.com?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: High usage web sites.
> We do.
>
> We serve about 3 million pages per day lately, with our hourly peaks
> usually in the 400-500K range.
>
> About half of these are CF based - ranging from very simple no-query
> pages to pages with a dozen queries. The most hit pages have 2-3
> queries on them.
>
> Our DB server is a Sun E450 4x400MHz, 4GB RAM, Oracle 8i.
>
> Our CF Servers are 8 Dell 2300/2400 boxes. All are Dual PIII, ranging
> from 400 to about 600MHz. 2GB RAM each, 2x9 or 2x18GB 10K drives
> mirrored. They run NT4 and IIS4, CF4.51 SP2. No other software.
>
> With this setup, we're capable of about 1 million CF pages per hour, or
> a 4x spike over normal peak traffic. Beyond that, we switch over to
> more aggressive DB caching, losing freshness in the content as a result
> - but its worth it.
>
> These boxes are load balanced with Big/IP boxes.
>
> Most, if not all, CF Pages return in under 50ms on onloaded servers. On
> loaded servers (ie, at about 2x our normal peak traffic (or about 500K
> pages per hour)), we see 300-600ms response time on many pages. At full
> load (1M pages per hour), response times are in the 1-2 second range.
> At this point, we implement query caching on previously uncached
> queries, and our response time drops back under a second, as we rise to
> about 2M pages per hour.
>
> We can't get past 2M pages per hour (or about 70 pages per second per CF
> Server). As we load on clients, response time increases, but thruput
> remains constant. Treaking CF threads has not helped positively. Think
> we're just at the limit of CF for our application mix.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Craig Dudley wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone have experience of using Coldfusion with very large usage web
sites?
> > Somewhere in the region of 240k - 250k page impressions an hour.
> >
> > If so, what sort of hardware would be needed?
> >
> > I know it's a bit vague, the site would be fairly basic database
searches
> > through say, 40-50k records, so we'd probably have to go for a seperate
db
> > server.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Regards, Craig.
> >
> >
>
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