And Shall we not forget the best CF site going - IMHO - Victoria's Secret
:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nat Papovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: RE: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions
> Autobytel.com runs dozens of webservers in a farm with millions of hits
per
> day. They have had no problems and are actually converting their stuff to
> Fusebox.
>
> ToysRus.com (now all part of amazon.com's backbone), which at one point
was
> running over 100 webservers handling their traffic at xmas shopping season
> was another example. You cynics out there might say that toysrus.com went
> down a lot that season. I've heard from the lead programmer there (a one
Mr.
> Medinets) that the reason they went down is because an Allaire Consultant
> came out to their site, checked out the application and recommended a
> certain number of CF servers to handle their expected load. Well along
came
> the expected load and those servers died - too many hits. After getting a
> bunch of servers overnighted from Dell, toysrus.com was successful.
>
> Finally, my own little piece of scalable news: I recently built a prom
dress
> retail site (last fall) in Fusebox and CF. When I finished it, we were
> already getting 10,000 hits per day. A few months later (after ads
appeared
> in seventeen magazine) I reviewed the WebTrends reports and we were
> averaging 500,000 hits per day on one dual-proc server. Peak days were 1
> million plus hits. Site was always really fast. I recieved no errors for
> months from that site.
>
> Therefore, CF and Fusebox are both enterprise worthy.
>
> Check out http://fusebox.org/Files/presentations/Scalability.ppt for Doug
> Nottage's (lead tech dude at autobytel) presentation on scalability. It's
> very thorough.
>
> NAT
>
>
>
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