Re: [PHP] PHP app & Server Load

2010-06-08 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 13:29, Dan Joseph wrote: > > As for estimating how things would run on a better server.  There are > benchmarks that score the CPUs.  Let's say one scored 5500, and one scored > 1100, is it safe to say the higher one can handle 5x the load? Very, very loosely, yes. Kee

Re: [PHP] PHP app & Server Load

2010-06-08 Thread Dan Joseph
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:12, Dan Joseph wrote: > > > > Anyone know a good way to estimate load based on actually numbers > compared > > to benchmark results from intel on a faster server? > > Run a DDoS-style (but not legitimate DDoS at

Re: [PHP] PHP app & Server Load

2010-06-08 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:12, Dan Joseph wrote: > > Anyone know a good way to estimate load based on actually numbers compared > to benchmark results from intel on a faster server? Run a DDoS-style (but not legitimate DDoS attack) load-balance simulator against your site and see where the bot

[PHP] PHP app & Server Load

2010-06-08 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi, This is slightly OT... We're wrapping up a new PHP/MySQL driven web site built on the Zend Framework. We're anticipating a couple hundred thousand members with several thousand of them coming to the site at once. I'm trying to figure out how to determine how many servers we need to support