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It has been quite a while since we served one million page views a day.... even on public holiday weekends we serve more. I'm surprised this got upvoted so muc

by sams99 16y ago

It has been quite a while since we served one million page views a day.... even on public holiday weekends we serve more. I'm surprised this got upvoted so much, I could easily serve 2 million static pages a day off one server, if I needed to and the pages were static. The assumption that we are using the same hardware and have similar workloads and so on, is clearly wrong. We could spend months and months tweaking everything so we need 2/3/4 less servers .... but ... servers are cheap, developer time is expensive. Also, we happen to have backup servers, we are not running at 100% utilization an we also happen to run chat off the same servers. I think it is awesome that minecraft are serving lots of traffic, I love nginx, we use haproxy. But the headline is misleading.

citricsquid 16y ago
Just to clarify, the OP here titled it in a manner that misrepresents what we were saying. Also, we're far from serving static pages. Granted the wiki (which is 50% of our traffic) is pretty static and we could easily run that from a single server, the reason we have such high number of servers is because of the forum, which is the other 30m page views and it's phpbb, it's... well, let's not go there. This submission is poorly titled, our intention was never to claim we're better than SO (we're very different... just like SO is very different to Digg) it was just a good comparison to make, as in "Joel said they're serving 60m page views a month and SO is huge, well we're doing the same, now you can see how big we are!" not "We serve the same as SO, therefore they suck!".
- sams99 16y ago
  You really should be using community tracker, my other baby :) http://community.mediabrowser.tv/ http://community.mediabrowser.tv/ I'm so happy I moved off phpbb it was causing nothing but grief. No hard feeling here, I think you are building an awesome business
  - citricsquid 16y ago
    We're in the process of moving, it's just a lot of work at our size, we have to make sure everything works :) We actually started out with fluxbb (my choice) but users got tetchy and as we moved from being "just a forum" to being a "community" we had to go forward with new features, but this was back before we had adverts and the $250+ for "proper" forums wasn't something we wanted to do. Here's an idea of how much we've grown: http://i.imgur.com/eenut.jpg http://i.imgur.com/eenut.jpg That software looks interesting although as I'm not a sys admin, all that matters to me is how pretty it is and that doesn't have enough rounded corners ;)
mnutt 16y ago
Also, important to note that while 2 million pages a day sounds like a lot, it's around 23 pages/s if distributed evenly. If traffic peaks around double or triple that, it's still very feasible for a single server running a dynamic app to serve that.

by sams99 16y ago

citricsquid 16y ago

Just to clarify, the OP here titled it in a manner that misrepresents what we were saying. Also, we're far from serving static pages. Granted the wiki (which is 50% of our traffic) is pretty static and we could easily run that from a single server, the reason we have such high number of servers is because of the forum, which is the other 30m page views and it's phpbb, it's... well, let's not go there. This submission is poorly titled, our intention was never to claim we're better than SO (we're very different... just like SO is very different to Digg) it was just a good comparison to make, as in "Joel said they're serving 60m page views a month and SO is huge, well we're doing the same, now you can see how big we are!" not "We serve the same as SO, therefore they suck!".

sams99 16y ago
You really should be using community tracker, my other baby :) http://community.mediabrowser.tv/ http://community.mediabrowser.tv/ I'm so happy I moved off phpbb it was causing nothing but grief. No hard feeling here, I think you are building an awesome business
- citricsquid 16y ago
  We're in the process of moving, it's just a lot of work at our size, we have to make sure everything works :) We actually started out with fluxbb (my choice) but users got tetchy and as we moved from being "just a forum" to being a "community" we had to go forward with new features, but this was back before we had adverts and the $250+ for "proper" forums wasn't something we wanted to do. Here's an idea of how much we've grown: http://i.imgur.com/eenut.jpg http://i.imgur.com/eenut.jpg That software looks interesting although as I'm not a sys admin, all that matters to me is how pretty it is and that doesn't have enough rounded corners ;)

mnutt 16y ago

Also, important to note that while 2 million pages a day sounds like a lot, it's around 23 pages/s if distributed evenly. If traffic peaks around double or triple that, it's still very feasible for a single server running a dynamic app to serve that.