Hi folks, >From my research around the place I have found there is very little information on running ColdFusion in a high load environment. It seems you either need to be a Java guru or have a lot of cash for consultants and MM support.
I'm looking after a site at the moment that's having a few problems due to its load, and I can't find any metrics that will tell me what kind of server I need to run it on. The server is under the following load: 260 GB of traffic per month 150,000 page views per day Its a forum based site so all the traffic is pure text, not many images. There are on average 2500 forum posts per day. Its running on a Windows 2003 Server machine (1G RAM, 2x2.4G Xeon) using a shared MS SQL database that's supplied by the hosting company. Is that a busy site? I have no idea. Should this be fine running on a single server? Or should I be looking at a cluster of servers. In terms of 'Number of Simultaneous Requests' I hear the recommended number is 3 - 5 per processor. I'm running this site on a Dual 2.4GHz Xeon server, but if I put the server on anything less than 15 simultaneous requests, the queue lengths grow and grow out of control until the server halts and all users see are the characters "<." on the screen. I currently have it sitting on 20 simultaneous requests, and it seems to be coping ok... but is this an unstable configuration? In short, when you look at the figures above do you think: "That config should be fine running a forum of that size, there's something screwed up in your code that's causing it to fail" OR "Holy Crap! You're running a site that busy on a setup like that? You need a cluster of 35 CF boxes and Deep Blue to run the database you ignoramus!" thanks all, bye! ----------------------- Ryan Sabir Newgency Pty Ltd 2a Broughton St Paddington 2021 Sydney, Australia Ph (02) 9331 2133 Fax (02) 9331 5199 Mobile: 0411 512 454 http://www.newgency.com/index.cfm?referer=rysig --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
