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California Women's Conference website sets SilverStripe traffic record
Posted by Sigurd on 15 July 2008
Yesterday the SilverStripe-powered website CaliforniaWomen.org began offering conference tickets for the largest and most dynamic gathering of women in North America. All of the tickets were sold in an unprecedented less-than-three-hour rush.
Thanks to a new caching system that shall be documented and released in an upcoming version of SilverStripe, a single webserver handled more than 80,000 page views in these key hours, in addition to associated images, animations, stylesheets, and javascript files. SilverStripe was used to handle the public-facing aspects of the conference website, and conference organisers even used the CMS to edit pages during the burst of traffic.
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Any news about when that sweet piece of code is opened for public review? We need it bad :/
regards
ChristophPosted by Christoph Strasen, 04/08/2008 8:30pm (1 month ago)
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Enayet, there is not an authoritative resource on hardware requirements. It really depends on the quantity of page views you get over a month. In the case of Women's Conference there is dedicated hardware, however in other situations we have dozens of SilverStripe websites on a single basic web server (e.g. equivalent to Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2ghz with 2-4GB ram). You ought to be fine with a single server of that calibre for a few million page views per month, and only need to consider caching or more sophisticated architecture when you get traffic bursts significantly higher than that.
Posted by Sigurd Magnusson, 29/07/2008 10:56am (1 month ago)
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Is there a whitepaper or a FAQ devoted to the minimum hardware spec for a server that hosts the SS code and the mysql db together? I am looking to set up such a server with my IT dept. to host SS sites and they are asking these questions.
Posted by Enayet Rasul, 29/07/2008 9:39am (1 month ago)
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Loic, and the flash video files (.flv) are hosted on blip.tv. The CMS is used to choose the video, and supply other meta data (description, etc.)
Just to point out: we have benchmarked much higher rates of page views but this is the highest wave of traffic we know of that was caused by real human visitors :)Posted by Sigurd Magnusson, 17/07/2008 6:42am (2 months ago)
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Yes it is. SS outputs several XML files which the flash then reads.
Posted by Will, 16/07/2008 5:03pm (2 months ago)
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Is the video section handled by SilverStripe ?
Thanks
LoicPosted by Loic, 16/07/2008 12:38pm (2 months ago)