[Ruby] Scalability tests

[David Bluestein II]

Ben-

Can you tell us the specs on your box? I'm interested to know your 
setup to see what hardware you have to support that level of use (and 
do you have a separate db server, or same as the web host?). I've heard 
several people question scaling recently, and I'm trying to get some 
real life data to see where things stand.

Thanks-

David

On Mar 20, 2007, at 8:24 PM, ben wiseley wrote:

> Well - what I really took away was "i really need to get a job that 
> 'allows'
> unit testing again"... I was just joking about the "scalability mention
> fear".  ZenTest looks pretty cool - will definitely have to dig into 
> that
> further.
>
> Thanks all for the replies on this ... definitely have some good stuff 
> to go
> on.  This list has been a great resource.
>
> fyi:  Our sites (we also have http://localism.com - and clearly no 
> designers
> on staff) have been getting around 1M page views a day ... the app 
> server is
> fine - our db is having some issues though (mostly due to insane
> requirements that basically left outer join to mars and back and make
> caching very dynamic data tough) and we're still not 100% certain we 
> got the
> apache/pound/mongrel/monit stacking right - it's been a fun learning 
> curve
> though.  The marketing guys are planning a fairly large publicity push 
> - so
> we'd like to make sure we can all of the sudden handle a massive 
> increase in
> traffic (massive all being relative)
>
> Thanks again!  Hopefully see you guys again some week.
>
> -ben
>
>
> On 3/20/07, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby at zenspider.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2007, at 14:31 , ben wiseley wrote:
>>
>>> After the last meeting (which was partially about "don't worry about
>>> scalability") I'm pretty hesitant to bring this up - but we're (
>>
>> I hope that isn't actually what you took away from my talk.
>>
>> What I was saying was "worry about complexity and scalability will
>> almost always take care of itself".
>>
>> Remember, even as slow as ruby is, a basic rails app will easily
>> handle 0.5-1.0 million hits a day on a relatively boring box. 4m hits
>> a day is addressed with better session stores, a bit of caching, and
>> a lot of RAM (read: no real architectural changes). I suspect that
>> it'd scale to 6m hits a day as well, but I have no evidence for that
>> yet.
>>
>> But... since 99% of the people on this list don't have to worry about
>> those numbers, they don't have to worry about those solutions either
>> and doing so is pure mentarbation (and a waste of time and money).
>>
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