I've been using Webload from Webload.org quite a since it went open source in the last couple of months. I'd highly recommend it for testing out a new system you'd set up before you put it online in production. You definitely learn a lot about how well your code scales when you load test it with a system that simulates actual activity.
Josh On 7/10/07, Chris Shiflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Marc, > I'm a developer who has concentrated more on smaller-scale projects, > but as it turns out one of my projects is beginning to stress the > limits of a single server, and so I'm about to begin venturing into > the unknown. > > The project is currently in the "tens of thousands" of users range, > but it looks like we need to start drafting a plan to scale it up > to "hundreds of thousands" to a million or so users. I recommend my colleague Theo Schlossnagle's book, Scalable Internet Architectures. It addresses these exact types of questions in a "teach a man to fish" sort of way. > This is a site that is running on a custom built PHP framework > (which seems to be performing rather well), and MySQL. I'm not a scalability expert, but one thing I've learned is that many things that perform well now can still cause problems when the scale increases, so keep your mind open to all possibilities. > If I had to classify the site, I'd say it follows a similar usage > pattern as something like last.fm, or facebook, only much smaller. Do you have the feature that allows people to see how many degrees away they are from another user? Anyway, read that book. :-) Chris -- Chris Shiflett http://shiflett.org/ _______________________________________________ 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
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