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Soasta - if you have money but not time - http://soasta.com Cheers, m On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Raphael Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > So I've been working on a project for a while with some friends, and we're > getting ready to launch the beta. > > I've never built a website on this scale, especially not in Rails, and in > the two weeks I have to prepare I need to figure out how to predict and > optimize for when traffic (hopefully) hits. > > What sort of tools are commonly used for load testing and analytics? How > can I predict what I'll need in two weeks, and what should I do then if > we're lucky enough to be pounded by traffic? How much traffic do you think > a 256MB Slicehost slice with Passenger behind Apache could support? Should > I use Rails's built-in caching? > > Thanks! Any advice, even if anecdotal, is welcome. > Raph > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
