Sergio Carvalho wrote: > > Hi, > > Congratulations to all Cocoon 2 developers!
Oh, BTW, I join everybody in thanking all of you for this great thing. Expecially Carsten for doing a magnificent job in coordinating the effort. It feels great to be part of this community. > The site I've been developing the > last couple of months has now gone on full launch. You can see it on: > http://www.portugalmail.pt > http://www.portugalmail.com > (I'm sorry for the language. There's only a portuguese version...) > > I took some risks opting for Cocoon, but C2 was the only technology that would > allow me to do the site in a couple of months by myself. I must say I'm really > impressed at how C2 handles load. Portugalmail is the leading portuguese free > e-mail provider. The site serves 8 million pages a month (measured by banner > impressions by DART). Typically, at any given moment, it is serving between 100 > and 200 requests, with peaks of 400. After HTTP caching, both by ISPs and by > front-side caching, the dynamic server takes about 10% of the load, which sums > up to 800k pages a month, for a month average of ~3s per page. Really excellent! > > The site is being served by two beautiful VA Linux boxes (gotta love the blue > leds). One runs squid and Apache/mod_gzip,mod_php, and the other Tomcat and > Postgresql. There is room for improvement on the "dynamic" box by upgrading both > the RDBMS and the servlet container, but for now everything is happily humming > along. If anyone is worried about C2's ability to handle large loads, here's the > proof. It can handle large loads, and it can do it better than the common > PHP/mod_perl. Now: this is the news I wanted to hear!!!! This is music for our ears. Sergio, how about writing a good in-depth howto/test-case that shows new users how to setup a system that rocks like that? it would be *very* helpful for the cause. What do you think? -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
