Re: Commercial sites that use PHP

Phil Labonte wrote: > Can anyone send me a list of large commercial web sites that use PHP? > > I am trying to move to PHP here at work but I need some examples to impress > the boss!!! > > Thanks We are working on compiling a list of these - anyone with information, please email me as well, and we'll include you. On to the topic at hand - what will impress your boss? Size of the site in pages? pageviews? number of servers? concurrent users? dollars the site cost to product? how many people it takes to run it? NUMBERS -------------- We migrated a site from NT/ASP to Linux/PHP. It used to require 5-6 machines - we *could* run it on one now, but keep 3 balanced for redundancy. (same exact hardware). People impressed with how large your server farm is would be disappointed in our PHP solution. We handle up to a few hundred simultaenous users at any one time, often doing a number with a lot of zeros after it in a single day of commerce (can't give exact figures here). Our local store - affordablecomputers.com, is pushing about 7 million page views/month (all dynamic PHP stuff) from one machine. neopets.com is pushing 40+ million page views per day in PHP. OTHER NAMES ---------------- IPOFinancial.com is a client of ours - not necessarily a huge site, but it's extremely important to his business, and it runs on Linux/PHP. Also in the financial realm, my.zacks.com appears to run PHP. Zacks is a pretty big name. livebid.amazon.com was running PHP at one point. I think it still is. aspsourcecode.com runs PHP. :) Those are just a few of what I know. As I wrote before, we're putting together a collection of this type of info for future reference. Anyone with more info, please contact me. Thanks. :) Michael Kimsal mailto:michael@tapinternet.com