Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day?
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texte = We are currently servicing a quarter of all Amway customers using a dualPIII box, with peak traffic reaching 1.5 M Hits/Day regularly. At the pointwhere the limits of your hardware start coming into play, your programmingtechniques become a key factor. If every page has a complex search, such asa summary with nested searching, you may need to re-think your programmingtechniques and/or your database schema. We had to do a bit of tweaking tomake the system as efficient as possible. One challenge we faced was theperformance impact of protecting every page with a user/login database ofapprox. 1.5 million accounts. The system would grind to a halt using astandard [protect] type system. The standard [protect] method uses twodatabase lookups per page hit. Instead, we set an encrypted session cookieand use a quick math algorhythm to check the validity of the user. Thismethod makes looking up the user data through the [SQL] context onlynecessary once per session, which works well under heavy load. On theup-side, pages that don't include database queries may actually serve upfaster using Webcat, due to the RAM caching of templates, than if they wereserved directly through IIS. (at least that's been our perception)Mike> Im debating wether to to use a linux redhat/apache setup instead of NT. Only> problem is, we are more familiar w/NT. Sounds like linux is more suited for> heavy loads than NT.> > Adam> ----- Original Message -----> From: Doug Hardman
> To: WebCatalog Talk > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:01 AM> Subject: Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day?> > >> I'm getting that on a WebTen G3/300 box with 256MB ram.>> >> If your doing it on an NT box you may need more than 4 processors tho...> =)>> (just kidding)>> >> -doug>> -->> Douglas Hardman : Silver Creek, Ltd.>> e.doug@silvercreek.net : w.silvercreek.net>> v.330-630-4487 : f.330-630-5786>> >> % ^What is saccharine?>> Bad substitute.>> >>> From: adam@inos.com (Adam O'Connor)>>> Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk)>>> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:36:31>>> To: (WebCatalog Talk)>>> Subject: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day?>>> >>> On a quad zeon, 1 gig ram, nt box?>>> The site being served is 50% static, 50% dynamic. It will be receiving>>> 1,000,000+ pageviews a day.>>> >>> Any help is>>> appreciated,>>> Adam O'Connor>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------->>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>>> the mailing list .>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to>>> >>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list .>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/>> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:
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- Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day? (adam@inos.com (Adam O'Connor) 2000)
- Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day? (adam@inos.com (Adam O'Connor) 2000)
- Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day? (Mike Davis 2000)
- Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day? (adam@inos.com (Adam O'Connor) 2000)
- Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day? (Nicolas Verhaeghe 2000)
- Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day? (Doug Hardman 2000)
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We are currently servicing a quarter of all Amway customers using a dualPIII box, with peak traffic reaching 1.5 M Hits/Day regularly. At the pointwhere the limits of your hardware start coming into play, your programmingtechniques become a key factor. If every page has a complex search, such asa summary with nested searching, you may need to re-think your programmingtechniques and/or your database schema. We had to do a bit of tweaking tomake the system as efficient as possible. One challenge we faced was theperformance impact of protecting every page with a user/login database ofapprox. 1.5 million accounts. The system would grind to a halt using astandard [protect] type system. The standard [protect] method uses twodatabase lookups per page hit. Instead, we set an encrypted session cookieand use a quick math algorhythm to check the validity of the user. Thismethod makes looking up the user data through the [SQL] context onlynecessary once per session, which works well under heavy load. On theup-side, pages that don't include database queries may actually serve upfaster using Webcat, due to the RAM caching of templates, than if they wereserved directly through IIS. (at least that's been our perception)Mike> Im debating wether to to use a linux redhat/apache setup instead of NT. Only> problem is, we are more familiar w/NT. Sounds like linux is more suited for> heavy loads than NT.> > Adam> ----- Original Message -----> From: Doug Hardman > To: WebCatalog Talk > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:01 AM> Subject: Re: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day?> > >> I'm getting that on a WebTen G3/300 box with 256MB ram.>> >> If your doing it on an NT box you may need more than 4 processors tho...> =)>> (just kidding)>> >> -doug>> -->> Douglas Hardman : Silver Creek, Ltd.>> e.doug@silvercreek.net : w.silvercreek.net>> v.330-630-4487 : f.330-630-5786>> >> % ^What is saccharine?>> Bad substitute.>> >>> From: adam@inos.com (Adam O'Connor)>>> Reply-To: (WebCatalog Talk)>>> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:36:31>>> To: (WebCatalog Talk)>>> Subject: Can webcat 3.0/4.0 handle 1,000,000 hits a day?>>> >>> On a quad zeon, 1 gig ram, nt box?>>> The site being served is 50% static, 50% dynamic. It will be receiving>>> 1,000,000+ pageviews a day.>>> >>> Any help is>>> appreciated,>>> Adam O'Connor>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------->>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>>> the mailing list .>>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to>>> >>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list .>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/>> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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