Curbly's server has 1G RAM with an Intel Xeon 1.6 ghz processor, but I'd caution against using that as your benchmark.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Sachin Kale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi bruno, > Thanks for insights. > > It would be more helpfull if you can share hardware configuration that > curbly uses. I have a requirement where site should sustain traffic of 30000 > hits per day, I am not able to figure out hardware estimation for it. Is > there a pointer for hardware estimation for rails site? > > Thanks, > Sachin > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 23-Feb-09, at 9:43, Bruno Bornsztein <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Andrei > > I wasn't sure to post this in the group or not. Basically, I would like to >> ask you for some tips on how to handle scalability as far as the right >> hosting choice. I noticed that some of your sites run on Amazon EC2. What >> other hosting companies do you use? How do you handle scalability as far as >> load balancing and with respect to Community Engine? >> >> I hope this won't take too much of your time and if you wish, you can post >> your answer to the community. >> > > I use EC2 for most of my sites, and RailsMachine for Curbly. Lately I've > begun switching all the sites over to Passenger, so I don't have to worry > about load balancing between mongrels. To be quite honest, performance > testing hasn't really been done on CE (anybody want to help?!), so I can't > give you a lot of specifics. There's a little bit of caching built in to the > system, and it holds up tolerably well for my purposes (Curbly gets >500,000 > pageviews per month). > > Scaling with CE isn't any different from scaling any other Rails app: a > good place to start is NewRelic's Scaling Rails > series<http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails>. > > Hope that helps, > Bruno > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
