On Wed, May 9, 2007 2:10 pm, bruce wrote: > In looking for what's required fo a site, I'm trying to find > docs/overview/mentors to talk to/etc,... > > Basically, I'm considering what's required in terms of > hardware/apps/functionality for each server to be able to support a > site/system of ~100,000/day
Not that this isn't entirely off-topic... 100,000 hits/day should be coordinated through a medium-sized hosting service that promises multi-tier architecture and dynamic server arrays. At 3,000,000 hits/month, for perspective, Yahoo! and MySpace average about 15 times that, per day. Google multi-tier architecture Google dynamic server farm Google server array Google raid array Much has been written about scalability of systems architecture. Google scalable systems architecture Web services push data from responder to caller. Google n-tier web services Google SOAP If you're looking to implement something that you know will scale quickly (like a porn site), hire someone. If you have months (or years or lead time) and just feel a little masochistic, first read on server and raid arrays, to get a good foundation. Different animals, but knowing how each works at least superficially can help later. What I suspect you need is a book on LAMP (www.oreilly.com). -- Jared Farrish Intermediate Web Developer Denton, Tx Abraham Maslow: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." $$
