RE: [PHP] High Traffic Sites and PHP/dynamic page generation
| From: | Sander Pilon | Date: | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:01:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] High Traffic Sites and PHP/dynamic page generation | ||
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> We server 1 million pages a day off of dynamic pages - so if this
> is a question
> of scalability then dynamic pages are fine - just make sure you
> have a beefy
> DB server and some load balancing (you would need this for static
> pages anyways)
>
One dynamic page aint the other. I can make up a very well written dynamic
page that still takes one hour to render.
Point is - there's not a thing you can say about this unless you know what
kind of dynamic page we're talking about, on what what hardware. A single
486 may be able to serve 2 million dynamic pages type X per day, while a two
quad Xeon's with 4Gb each might not be able to hit even 1 million dynamic
pages of type Y.
One million/day means you have to be able to have a peak capacity of about
30 request/second. (About 2.5 times the average) It aint *THAT* much if you
have a modern setup.