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   by caseyf 17y ago

   Yep! We used nginx's fair balancing module before switching to haproxy. It also helps me do rolling restarts/hot deployments in a nice way. It's really a great piece of software. Kudos to Willy. PS - you're also correct about the nginx-&#62
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   by caseyf 17y ago

   Hey there. 2.5 of our physical servers run Passenger/Rails. If this were a Java app, I definitely would have been able to get away with less (mostly because of less memory consumption, but less CPU consumption wouldn't hurt either) However,
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   by caseyf 17y ago

   Input from users? Our forums - lots of time talking with our people in the forums. I wrote a little post about how we collect feedback here: http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2008/06/29/beta-testing-and-be...
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   by caseyf 17y ago

   http://www.ravelry.com/help/api isn't much but it should be enough to make a project portfolio. Post on the Ravelry board if you have any questions :)
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   by caseyf 17y ago

   I feel weird replying to all of these comments but here goes: We were worried about Cogent at the beginning so we only used them for delivering some static files and for non-critical outgoing traffic. It was initially an experiment - to sav
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   by caseyf 17y ago

   We had an automated invitation system - the usual, "put in your email, wait a while for the invite" thing. It was true that were only adding a couple hundred people a day during the early days. We weren't ready for more. We were so not pr
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   by caseyf 17y ago

   heh. Oops.