Thanks DavidB, and as ever to GrahamS. We do get some good advice from these threads, occasionally. I hear Facebook now have over 60,000 servers, which probably also helps spread the load a little 🙂
the amazon issue seems to have been fixed. Haven't had it happen today
If only memcache was as simple as plugging in a sever and installing the software, I/O bottlenecks have been the bain of my life over the years so I commisurate with you and understand what you are going through.
Thanks DavidB, and as ever to GrahamS. We do get some good advice from these threads, occasionally. I hear Facebook now have over 60,000 servers, which probably also helps spread the load a little
Facebook do, but PinkBike are running on just the one (at least not counting static content) with a LOT of traffic going through.
Interesting article about that over here: http://radek.pinkbike.com/blog/pinkbike-speed.html
To update. I'll be making some adjustments over the weekend. I'll have to take the forum offline for a short time, but hopefully when it's quiet.
Look, I just found this page http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/statistics.php which tells you the most popular forum topics of all time. And there are 2.2+ million posts at the moment.
f only memcache was as simple as plugging in a sever and installing the software,
It's not, but it is one of the best investments you'll ever make. They key is isolating the read traffic and memcaching that. Our DB servers sat on their arse doing nowt once this had been done. It was a damned clever bit of code that took a week for two of us to write, probably saved £50-100k in hardware long term.
Update.
It's probably inappropriate to say the site will never collapse under load ever again, but we have made some suitable adjustments to lots of relevant things and it's behaving much better. We also have some more stuff in the pipeline. We'll continue to monitor the situation closely.
I'll unsticky this thread now. Thanks for your patience.
Fingers crossed.
delusional - that PB article about their server was very interesting, thanks 🙂