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I get 3.7-4 million page views per month from 850k-1 million unique users.

by modoc 12y ago

GordonS 12y ago
OK, that is a lot! What sort of hardware do you need for that kind of load?
- zrail 12y ago
  That's approximately 2 hits per second. If you're serving static content (or heavily cached) you could handle that with a Raspberry PI. Heck you could probably do it with an arduino. Edit: this depends heavily on your traffic pattern, of course. Super bursty traffic from Reddit, TechCrunch, etc is going to swamp your IO, but CPU will never dominate the equation.
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    Might as well serve it from Amazon S3 with Cloudflare in front of it.
    - mattmanser 12y ago
      Of all the things that would be suited to Amazon S3 with Cloudflare, a simple mail client/server that saves email securely for 10 minutes is not one. At all.
  - dpcan 12y ago
    Depends on your users I think. If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second. And pulling email for an account could be more costly than a static page view. Then if he's getting that many views, he could be processing tens or hundreds of emails a day per account more or less.... Could get expensive.
    - discardorama 12y ago
      > If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second. How do you get that? Assuming 4M/month, that works out to 130K/day. Even if all that traffic comes in a 10-hour window, that works out to 130,000/36000 =~ 4/sec, not 70/sec.
- modoc 12y ago
  As zrail mentioned below, it's not that much traffic from a load perspective. It's a Java app, so it uses some RAM, but honestly the hardest load to tune for was the inbound spam. I have a massively overspecced server that I use for this, and many other sites/projects - 24 GB RAM, dual X5670 CPUs, etc... Typically runs at a load average of only 0.5-0.6. Like I said, overspecced:)
  - baudehlo 12y ago
    You probably need a better mail server that can more easily handle that load. Check Haraka out (shameless plug, but it's designed for high loads and this kind of app).
    - simi_ 12y ago
      I'm writing some plugins for Haraka _right now_. Definitely recommended!
    - detaro 12y ago
      FYI: searching for Haraka on duckduckgo links to the page with a description text of "This is the meta description of your form. You can use it for SEO purposes.". Whoever runs the website should probably clean up the meta-tags.
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I get 3.7-4 million page views per month from 850k-1 million unique users.

by modoc 12y ago

I get 3.7-4 million page views per month from 850k-1 million unique users.

GordonS 12y ago

OK, that is a lot! What sort of hardware do you need for that kind of load?

zrail 12y ago
That's approximately 2 hits per second. If you're serving static content (or heavily cached) you could handle that with a Raspberry PI. Heck you could probably do it with an arduino. Edit: this depends heavily on your traffic pattern, of course. Super bursty traffic from Reddit, TechCrunch, etc is going to swamp your IO, but CPU will never dominate the equation.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  Might as well serve it from Amazon S3 with Cloudflare in front of it.
  - mattmanser 12y ago
    Of all the things that would be suited to Amazon S3 with Cloudflare, a simple mail client/server that saves email securely for 10 minutes is not one. At all.
- dpcan 12y ago
  Depends on your users I think. If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second. And pulling email for an account could be more costly than a static page view. Then if he's getting that many views, he could be processing tens or hundreds of emails a day per account more or less.... Could get expensive.
  - discardorama 12y ago
    > If 50% of that traffic is during a 10 hour window of time each day, that could be around 70 views per second. How do you get that? Assuming 4M/month, that works out to 130K/day. Even if all that traffic comes in a 10-hour window, that works out to 130,000/36000 =~ 4/sec, not 70/sec.
modoc 12y ago
As zrail mentioned below, it's not that much traffic from a load perspective. It's a Java app, so it uses some RAM, but honestly the hardest load to tune for was the inbound spam. I have a massively overspecced server that I use for this, and many other sites/projects - 24 GB RAM, dual X5670 CPUs, etc... Typically runs at a load average of only 0.5-0.6. Like I said, overspecced:)
- baudehlo 12y ago
  You probably need a better mail server that can more easily handle that load. Check Haraka out (shameless plug, but it's designed for high loads and this kind of app).
  - simi_ 12y ago
    I'm writing some plugins for Haraka _right now_. Definitely recommended!
  - detaro 12y ago
    FYI: searching for Haraka on duckduckgo links to the page with a description text of "This is the meta description of your form. You can use it for SEO purposes.". Whoever runs the website should probably clean up the meta-tags.

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