California Women's Conference website sets SilverStripe traffic record

Posted by Sigurd on 15 July 2008

California Women's Website Front PageYesterday 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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  • It was truly a wonderful event. I was so moved by the key note speakers and found their stories very empowering

    Posted by Nicole Sartain, 1 year ago

  • Any news about when that sweet piece of code is opened for public review? We need it bad :/

    regards
    Christoph

    Posted by Christoph Strasen, 2 years ago

  • 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, 2 years ago

  • 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, 2 years ago

  • 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, 2 years ago

  • Yes it is. SS outputs several XML files which the flash then reads.

    Posted by Will, 2 years ago

  • Is the video section handled by SilverStripe ?
    Thanks
    Loic

    Posted by Loic, 2 years ago

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