Re: 100K + users/day

[mikeh@minivend.com]

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Quoting Russ (russ@khouse.org):
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Now that minivend is up and running lots of groovy things, we want to
> promote the store.  We want to make sure we can handle 100,000 users/day
> without any problems.  Does anyone have experience with minivend in a
> high-traffic situation?
> 

What "users" means in a web environment is certainly up for discussion. I
have experience with systems that handle over 50,000 unique IPs per
day. Undoubtedly the emphasis should be on serving static HTML instead of
dynamic parsed pages when possible. This is where your big gains will be
made; the typical user transaction even on Amazon is maybe the home page,
a couple of special pages, etc and one or more searches. Sometimes the
entry point will be a search; if you can make the frequently-traveled
pages static and cache frequent searches, then things scale pretty well.
If every page is a parsed page, then MV doesn't handle it nearly as
well.

One of the aims of MiniVend 4 will be to be able to handle
very high traffic loads with multiple servers and load-balancing.
I believe I have a strategy that will achieve this; now all I
have to do is do it. 8-)

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