I'm running a similar scale site on one std CF machine. It's linux tho... i would not touch a windows CF box with a 10 ft pole... but that's just me, i'm sure others on this list will disagree.
It certainly is possible to get a site like yours running on one machine... but for high availabilty i'd say a 2nd box would be nice... if the money is there. In terms of code, the only thing i'll suggest is using a caching custom tag to cache (almost) everything in the server scope. This worked wonders for my app. I used the one i got from Robin Hilliard at a CFUG meeting http://www.rocketboots.com.au/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=0AF1EB07-E081-51EF-A79E6668F01C9989 I've also used an adapted one from farcry. I think there's a new version now complete with admin pages. I'm sure someone can point you in the right direction if you want. hth Gav On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:03:28 +1100, Ryan Sabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/ > --- 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/
