On 21/08/2010 20:13, Ken Fox wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Pid * <p...@pidster.com> wrote:
>> We don't usually count web traffic in hits any more, because a single
>> page could easily cause 100 hits.
> 
> I think hits to your app servers is still an appropriate way to think
> about your server load. If a page view generates 100 hits to your
> Tomcat instances, your CDN is probably busted.

A CDN is somewhat of an assumption, in this case, I think.

> Marketing and ad revenue talk a lot about page views, but that's
> a useless stat for sizing your Tomcat servers. Don't give in to the
> dark side. ;)

I disagree.  Pages, forms, Servlets are far more likely to account for
server load than static files.  Regardless, an average of one *hit* per
minute could easily mean a mere 1 *page* an hour.

> On a related topic, anybody have trouble scaling Comet-based
> sites with Tomcat? It seems like ad revenue could be at least as
> big a hurdle as server scaling.

That would be off-topic for this thread.


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> - Ken
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