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That's 1 request per minute, you could slap that into a raspberry pi on a 3G connection, and do the same for your next 400 apps that has 1 request per minute.

That's 1 request per minute, you could slap that into a raspberry pi on a 3G connection, and do the same for your next 400 apps that has 1 request per minute. People seem to underestimate just how powerful modern machines really are. And I don't get why people seem to think it's hard to deploy simple web applications. Just write a 4-line shell script that rsync's, runs whatever DB migrations you may have and restarts the thing.

forgottenacc56 10y ago
40k visitors per month isn't one per minute. It's anywhere from one per minute to 40k per second. Division of requests by time is the worst possible mistake in calculating load.
- buro9 10y ago
  Plus visitors != requests. I have 200k visitors per month generating 8m page views and about 50m hits on the servers (with CDNs taking another few hundred million hits). These all peak during the UK weekdays and wind down at nights and weekends. Divisions over time aren't going to work, but neither is translating visitors into requests, especially as it's only the page views that have a beyond trivial computation cost.
  - joeblau 10y ago
    Yeah, I just checked Cloudlfare and here are the requests Total Requests Last Month 622,482
- elsurudo 10y ago
  While you overall point is correct, it's still likely not going to be a lot. It's highly unlikely that it's 40k per second.
- Svenskunganka 10y ago
  Thank you for the correction, but that was not the point I was trying to make. I was referring to his statement: > [...] before switching to Docker (even though I do love Docker). This seems like a very drastic solution to problems he does not yet have. I've been responsible for similar thoughts before, but shortly after realized just how damn stupid I was.
joeblau 10y ago
Well technically it's: 622482 / 43800 = 14.2119178082 requests per minute Here are my requests over the last month - http://jmp.sh/9EAUVrv http://jmp.sh/9EAUVrv I definitely understand that modern machines are powerful, but I used to STIG RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 boxes for 4 years as my primary day job. I've done everything from create creating kickstart files to manually locking down a whole Linux instances to creating RPM files. At this point in my career I just don't care about the extra cycles I get by using <insert your infrastructure tech>. If my product needed the extra performance, trust me I would switch.

forgottenacc56 10y ago

40k visitors per month isn't one per minute. It's anywhere from one per minute to 40k per second. Division of requests by time is the worst possible mistake in calculating load.

buro9 10y ago
Plus visitors != requests. I have 200k visitors per month generating 8m page views and about 50m hits on the servers (with CDNs taking another few hundred million hits). These all peak during the UK weekdays and wind down at nights and weekends. Divisions over time aren't going to work, but neither is translating visitors into requests, especially as it's only the page views that have a beyond trivial computation cost.
- joeblau 10y ago
  Yeah, I just checked Cloudlfare and here are the requests Total Requests Last Month 622,482
elsurudo 10y ago
While you overall point is correct, it's still likely not going to be a lot. It's highly unlikely that it's 40k per second.
Svenskunganka 10y ago
Thank you for the correction, but that was not the point I was trying to make. I was referring to his statement: > [...] before switching to Docker (even though I do love Docker). This seems like a very drastic solution to problems he does not yet have. I've been responsible for similar thoughts before, but shortly after realized just how damn stupid I was.

joeblau 10y ago

Well technically it's: 622482 / 43800 = 14.2119178082 requests per minute Here are my requests over the last month - http://jmp.sh/9EAUVrv http://jmp.sh/9EAUVrv I definitely understand that modern machines are powerful, but I used to STIG RHEL 4 and RHEL 5 boxes for 4 years as my primary day job. I've done everything from create creating kickstart files to manually locking down a whole Linux instances to creating RPM files. At this point in my career I just don't care about the extra cycles I get by using <insert your infrastructure tech>. If my product needed the extra performance, trust me I would switch.