On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Ramdas S <ram...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a web server where we are hosting around 12-15 django web sites > most of them attracting modest traffic, except a couple which sees spiikes > on and off. Together we estimate just about 20,000-40,000 page views. > > However we are expecting major spikes in traffic in the coming days and are > moving to a 8 GB RAM quad core server. > > We are also trying to optimize the django apps. > > Presently we have memcached mod-python instances running. The database > server is also running on the same server. > > What all should we do to ensure that such a server can handle huge volumes > of traffic? > > We are presently optimizing every site with whatever we can according to > what Yahoo! recommends for improving site performance. But that's only at > the client side. > > I am told that mod wsgi is more efficient than mod-python. How efficient? > Do your recommend moving all sites to modwsgi? > > What about nginx? Is it worth exploring Nginx as alternative to Apache? > > Is there anything else we need to look at? > > Thanks for the advices... > > Also what is the realistic number of page views/ simultaneous connections > that a Nehalem quad core Intel i-7 920, 8 GB RAM machine can handle? Any > statistical experiences. > > Thanks > > -- > Ramdas S > > > > > > Though scaling is not the exact same as performance: http://immike.net/files/scaling_django.pdf is a great resource and has lots of performance tips.
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