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You say you have 50,000 registered users. Can I ask how many visitors you receive a day? What type of server structure you have? I'm currently building a webapp
by newaccountfool 12y ago
You say you have 50,000 registered users. Can I ask how many visitors you receive a day? What type of server structure you have? I'm currently building a webapp and would like to know what hardware you have running it.
- graphik 12y agoWe see around 200K uniques per month. This month will be a bit higher due to HN traffic. We're running this on a Digital Ocean droplet and AWS for our media. It's a surprisingly simple set-up, really.
- radq 12y agoWe get between 300 and 500 rpm depending on the time of the day, all of which is served from a 8GB DO droplet running 4 Unicorn processes. Our forum (we use Discourse) also gets similar traffic, it is hosted on a 4GB droplet.
- newaccountfool 12y agoWow, here's me thinking that you would have separate servers for database and web server and load balancers. Gives me faith.
- radq 12y agoWe actually have the architecture in place for that, it turns out it was completely unnecessary. (See: https://github.com/hummingbird-me/ansible-deploy https://github.com/hummingbird-me/ansible-deploy) The application layer is completely horizontally scalable, all I need to do is edit the config file to add or remove servers and run ansible.