It's more useful to break it down into req/s. 5M page views a month is an average of 2 req/s (not taking into account spikes). Do you have some info about your peak request rate?
I've seen even the heaviest pages take less than 300ms to render, plus you'll most often be hitting the cache, which is even faster. I'm betting you could handle that on a 1GB vps with the whole stack installed. If it can't handle the traffic, you could put Varnish or some other reverse-proxy cache in front, at the expense of freshness. Other Radiant deployments to consider w.r.t. volume: redken.com, CACM. Sean On Thursday, December 24, 2009, Peter Degen-Portnoy <pport...@avenue100.com> wrote: > Compete.com tells me that ruby-lang gets about 1/10 the traffic I currently > get. So your musing about the production configuration is at the heart of > the question. > > - Peter > >> From: Mohit Sindhwani <t...@onghu.com> >> Organization: Viometrix | Onghu >> Reply-To: <t...@onghu.com>, <radiant@radiantcms.org> >> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:47:26 +0800 >> To: <radiant@radiantcms.org> >> Subject: Re: [Radiant] Stories of stability >> >> Peter Degen-Portnoy wrote: >>> Thanks, Steven, for the added perspective. >>> >>> What do folks consider a "high-volume" site? If I'm looking to handle 3 - 5 >>> million page views monthly, which I can do with a few production Rails >>> servers and a non-trivial production architecture (memcache, n-tier >>> architecture, etc.), do folks think Radiant will be up to the task? >>> >> Well, the ruby-lang site runs on Radiant.. wonder what configuration it >> uses. >> >> That said, if your content doesn't change too rapidly, you can increase >> the cache timeout to a good large number.. my sites are not high volume >> - more like niche technology sites, so I wouldn't know for sure. >> >> Cheers, >> Mohit. >> 12/24/2009 | 9:47 PM. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Radiant mailing list >> Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org >> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ >> Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
