Do you know what hardware (and how many servers) addons.mozilla are running?
The most accurate sites on the web www.mastermoz.com Paul Yurt, Publisher paul(@)2.0websites.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Marscher Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 6:03 PM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: [nyphp-talk] Scaling Web Apps WAS Re: PHP Web Frameworks On 4/4/07 9:58 PM, "Nate Abele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Firefox Add-ons portal (https://addons.mozilla.org/) was built > on CakePHP, and you can check out the source code here: http:// > svn.mozilla.org/addons/trunk/site/app/. To date, the site has > handled the arguably higher load without a hitch. That's cool that addons is using Cake. I came across this article by Mike Morgan of addons a few months ago (actually posted about a year ago) about rewriting addons and using APC, LVS (linux virtual servers), and a memcache server: <http://morgamic.com/2006/04/14/ scalable-php-with-phpa-apc-memcached-and-lvs-part-2/>. He was bitching about Smarty and Pear:DB as possibly causing too much overhead, so it's interesting that they ended up getting involved in Cake (not sure if he's still involved or not). I've been very interested in scaling lately. Most of my servers ar using APC and I'm currently getting by with having apps only using one server... but the day is rapidly approaching where I'm going to have to get serious about a multiple server setup. Is anyone here using virtual servers? It seems to have some nice benefits in terms of being able to easily move them between physical boxes and scale them up to more ram/cpu. However, I've heard that you lose some performance and am trying to figure out when it's worth it. I'm talking about virtual server's at the kernel level... like Xen. Thanks! -Rob _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
