Re: Scalable Site Architecture

bruce wrote:

Hi.. In looking for what's required fo a site, I'm trying to find docs/overview/mentors to talk to/etc,... Basically, I'm considering what's required in terms of hardware/apps/functionality for each server to be able to support a site/system of ~100,000/day

Depends on your app and what you want to do. If it's 95% "pull content from the database and display it" (eg a page from an article), look at creating static html files which get regenerated when the content is edited (http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=3&catname=Caching) A webserver should handle 100k hits a day of static html pretty easily. If you're doing complicated database queries with every page hit then you're going to need a lot more database servers than http servers. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/