I would love to know your site. On May 31, 5:26 am, Daniel Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm about to start a Django project that will be replacing an existing > high-profile Drupal site. The existing site has extremely high traffic - > approximately 1,440,000 page views per hour, or 400 per second. This is only > possible with the help of Akami. Without Akami the site would melt. > > Is there anything I need to be aware of with regard to Django and high > availability? I saw this: > > http://www.davidcramer.net/other/43/rapid-development-serving-500000-... > > but our traffic is triple that. I did glean a lot of good information from the > site, however. > > I know that if we throw enough hardware at the system it will be able to > handle the volume, but we don't have the budget for the hardware necessary in > this case. Does anyone have any experience with a site of this magnitude? The > 400 pages per second is a constant rate, not peak. > > The launch date is in September, so we have a limited time to design the > models, port over the data (from Drupal's fractured database structure), and > recreate this site from scratch. > > Thanks!
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