You should read the original article that started this thread to answer that
question:
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2082921,00.asp
The main issues that affect MySpace performance are:
1. they get more traffic than any web site in the world; and,
2. every page is dynamically generated via multiple database queries
(there are no static pages, and because each page is customized per user,
there's little opportunity for query caching).
The main thing they've struggled with (still struggle with?) is the
database, as discussed in the Baseline article. Since they switched to
BlueDragon and .NET, there have been no issues with the front-end web
servers.
Vince Bonfanti
New Atlanta Communications, LLC
http://www.newatlanta.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Robert Reil
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:35 AM
> To: discussion@acfug.org
> Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] MySpace growth
>
> I notice that MySpace is so darn slow! Is that the servers or
> the code I wonder?
>
>
> Robert P. Reil
> Managing Director,
> Motorcyclecarbs.com, Inc.
> 4292 Country Garden Walk NW
> Kennesaw, Ga. 30152
> Office 770-974-8851
> Fax 770-974-8852
> www.motorcyclecarbs.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Bonfanti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:12 AM
> To: Carbs Sales&Service
> Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] MySpace growth
>
> The MySpace servers running BlueDragon.NET are all still
> 32-bit. As for 64-bit support, I spoke at a conference in
> Rome last November with Ben Forta, where he said publicly
> it's unlikely that Scorpio will provide native 64-bit
> support. You can also read the comments by Damon Cooper (CFMX
> Director of Engineering) regarding 64-bit support (he's less than
> enthusiastic):
>
>
> http://www.fekke.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/20/Does-ColdFusion
-need-64-bit-S
> upport-Short-answer-Yes
>
> Our plans are to provide native 64-bit support for BlueDragon
> 7.0 on the widest number of platforms possible. In fact,
> there's already a beta of native 64-bit BD 7.0 for Red Hat
> Linux 4 (RHEL4) and the x64 architecture:
>
>
> ftp://ftp.newatlanta.com/public/bluedragon/7_0b2/server/BlueDr
agon_Server_JX
> _70_326-Linux64.sh
>
> Vince Bonfanti
> New Atlanta Communications, LLC
> http://www.newatlanta.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven
> > Ross
> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:48 AM
> > To: discussion@acfug.org
> > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] MySpace growth
> >
> > I think the most interesting part is that they no longer use CF,
> > actually the article mentions that they moved away from CF
> awhile ago.
> > And the reason why they are using BD .NET is because they
> want to run
> > native .NET code as it is faster. Granted it is probably
> faster due to
> > the fact that it can actually utilize the 64 bit processor
> better than
> > running CF on 32 bit java under a 64bit OS/CPU (not the only reason
> > but, probably one).
> > I hope this issue is addressed with the release of scorpio.
> >
> > If you want to understand this you can read this article by Andy
> > (http://www.infoaccelerator.net/index.cfm/2006/12/7/ColdFusion
> > --64Bit-and-What-It-Means-To-You)
> >
> >
> > On 1/18/07, Alex Pilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > At 7:04 PM -0500 1/18/07, Alex Pilson wrote:
> > > >It's quite an interesting read on scalability and how they
> > dealt with
> > > >it. Coldfusion mentioned.
> > > >
> > > >http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2082921,00.asp
> > >
> > > Oh I forgot and BlueDragon.NET!
> > > --
> >
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @
> http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform
>
> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive
> @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/
> List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @
> http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform
>
> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive
> @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/
> List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @
http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform
For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists
Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/
List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com
-------------------------------------------------------------
