How spikey is your traffic? I would have assumed that SEO and Adwords buys would give roughly consistant traffic week after week. I think with that kind of traf

How spikey is your traffic? I would have assumed that SEO and Adwords buys would give roughly consistant traffic week after week. I think with that kind of traffic profile you'd almost certainly notice it yourself. Where it would really hurt would be a sudden massive traffic spike, where your traffic rises above the magic number of hits per second that your rails app servers can deal with, and the delay would spiral out of control, only contained by connection timeouts. Before I had properly setup my Django site, I experienced an issue like this with Apache worker threads, and that's exactly what happened. It went undetected until we had 100% higher traffic than normal (at the time, normal was growing by 10% a week), and instead of the site being snappy, most connections were timing out. I was completely out of my depth, having never administered a server before, let alone a dynamic web app with high traffic. Learning as I went while losing 10+ players per second was not fun.