Re: Digital Downloads and Scale

dg schreef:

Hello everyone, I'd appreciate any insights, or source suggestions regarding site traffic and necessary adjustments. For example, I'm using a simple digital download page for an indie artist. Not a ton of traffic, not a ton of concurrent requests. Was thinking about introducing something similar for a bigger artist(though still not huge) and I'm concerned for any trouble more demand might create. On the web server side, I'm not worried, as it's on a Pair high volume account.

if you have enough concurrent connections/downloads then nothing but serious load-balanced servers will help.

I am concerned where I might need back-ups or adjustments to code and

backups are just storage, not exactly a performance issue unless you run some heavy backup scripts/tools on the server at peak periods.

database queries. Not quite sure where to start in researching this - any ideas or keywords would be appreciated.

get a book? I happen to be rereading "building scalable websites" by Carl Henderson ... something like that might help you to get a better idea of what you might be facing. use simple code, optimize your db and go and read up on everything you can find about optimizing [download] connections on your webserver ... these spring to mind keywords: [database] optimization webserver concurrency scalable web applications er?

Thanks, -dg