Hi Matt, > Why is Macromedia.com a good example? Who says Macromedia.com is > scalable? There is no publicly available information for anyone to be > able to determine if Macromedia.com is scalable, so I think you are just > assuming.
You're right, I'm mainly assuming. But still, it is the first public large site based on CFMX and CFCs. > Based on the publicly available information about the hardware > behind Macromedia.com I'd think it wasn't that scalable at all. I mean > there are sites with higher load using a tenth of the hardware that > Macromedia.com uses. In the world top from eRatings, Macromedia.com is around the 23th place. Here are the sites with a similar or higher load : 1 Yahoo 120 763 (000 unique visitors) 2 MSN 110 736 3 AOL Time Warner 95 282 4 Microsoft 80 934 5 Google 72 523 6 eBay 48 895 7 Amazon 47 216 8 Lycos Network 46 135 9 About-Primedia 33 896 10 CNet Networks 23 194 11 Wanadoo 20 764 12 Sony 20 763 13 Walt Disney Internet 19 599 14 T-Online 18 397 15 Sharman Networks 18 088 16 Infospace 17 893 17 Vivendi Universal 17 342 18 Real Networks 19 Tiscali 15 670 20 Viacom International 15 334 21 The Gator Corporation 15 151 22 Rakuten 15 106 23 Macromedia 14 681 Do you have any figures that shows that they scale better that Macromedia.com? It would be interesting to know what are the configuration of such web sites. Usually such hosting/architecture info are fully confidential. The other problem is that, it is always difficult to compare the scalability of such sites... most of them are "nearly 95% static content" web sites (change once a day), which means content caching can be heavily used to handle the load. Don't forget that some parts of Macromedia.com (mainly the RIAs) are fully dynamic applications. Benoit Hediard www.benorama.com ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
