Get a slicehost account (or other virtual host) with 256MB of ram for twenty bucks and run ab or httperf over your app with a bit of concurrency.
Then, when everything goes to hell consider adding some really basic caching. I don't think you'll need to stress that much - but file based caching will serve a lot of requests. Good luck. On May 16, 10:26 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I'm Maykel from SpeedyRails.com. As Anibal said, your Rails > application is going to use around 40-100MB RAM per Mongrel instance > depending on your code and server architecture (your application is > going to use around 2x memory in 64 bits servers). Multiplying the > amount of memory needed for one user per the number of users is not > correct at all. > > The most important thing is how many Mongrel instances you have for > your Rails application, since every Mongrel instance can respond to > only one request at the same time (that's why you will be always using > the memory you need for one user, not for 300-400 users) you will need > around 3-4 Mongrel instances to ensure your application can respond to > 300-400 simultaneous users, considering you will be receiving around > 100-200 requests per second (let's say all the users won't be clicking > at the same time) and considering your application can respond to > 50-60 requests per second (which is good actually, could be less). > > Hope this help. If you need further information about our hosting > plans just send us and email, our site is been updated now but you can > contact us at sales [at] speedyrails [dot] com. > > Thanks, > Maykel > > -- > Maykel Rodriguezwww.speedyrails.com > Easy to use Rails hosting --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
