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  1. Re:It's a leftist's dream come true by pomo+monster · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Eco-Cities

    I like these better:
    What sort of Hipster are you? -- The Artiste
    What kind of postmodernist are you!? -- The Theory Slut

  2. Quizilla.com by Xunker · · Score: 1 · on Load Balancing Heavy Websites on Current Tech?

    I run quizilla.com, a pseudo-entertainment site that does 60-70 million pages a month, at least 2/3rds being dynamic database backed.

    The site faq has the grity details, but basically everything is running on 8 web servers with a cluster of 4 database servers. Mod_perl is used for the most highly trafficed pages, though some less used pages are still static CGIs.

    For the way I have it set up, this farm has reached it's limit with the web servers getting pegged pretty constantly during peak hours, and the database servers aren't far behind (mostly due to lack of ram).

    The site makes heavy use of Memcached as well as a homebrew ghetto load balancing system based on apache mod_rewrite and some ansilary code.

    If I had my druthers, I'd keep the number of machines but have the web heads be 2.8-3ghz Xeons or Opterons with 1.5 GB ram each and the database servers could be dual 1.8ghz xeons with at least 3GB ram each. Idea memcache would be at least 2GB, but more is always better. From my guess, a setup like that would run my site at 100mil quick pages a month, instead of like now where pages often take 5 seconds or more.

    One big things that you don't really notice until you try to make things on this scale is that optimization is king -- optimize the hell out of your code. A stray regex might not look expensive, but when it's happening twenty times a second on every machine it quickly adds. up.

    Code is almost always the weakest link in a big cluster in that seldom are things sufficiently planned -- I've had huge growing pains since I never planned on scalling past one machine so when i had to move to 2,3,4 and up to 8 is has been a real hassle making things work "right" in a massive cluster. Plan for clustering from the get-go if you even have the slightest inkling it will do high traffic volumes.

  3. Re:I gave up the review early on by Gilmoure · · Score: 1 · on The Introvert Advantage

    Well, a couple of heads under my feet, two more (one under each hand) for my arms and one affixed to the top of my throne of despair (in my parent's garage in Tampa-Duh!) make for a pretty cushy thinking chair.

  4. What kind of /. troll are you?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Glade 2 Tutorial

    I am the Goatse Troll, but it got eaten by the lameness filter.

    Take the quiz

  5. What X-Man are you? by Jerry+Jigglenuts · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Water-Rocket-Powered Cars

    The Test

  6. Re:Not to be cynical... by Xunker · · Score: 1 · on Scaling Server Performance

    Sorry, it's not pr0n. Strict policy against showing boobies.

  7. Googlebombing works better by Xunker · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Declaring The Death of Metatags

    Better than metatags, IMO, is Googlebombing -- i.e. making a bunch of sites point to yours.

    I actually managed to pull off a wholey unplanned yet quite effective googlebomb in the last few months. A side project of mine, Quizilla, has ome feature where it give you HTML coede to past into your weblog. Well, since Quizilla is a free service , I put an advetising string in that HTML, "brought to you by Quizilla", with a link to the site.

    Well, through some circumstances that got really popular really quick and people were pasting a lot og this HTML into their pages.. and what happened when Google indexed all those pages?

    Instant Googlebomb.

    I'm kinda sad I wasn't selling anything, or else I'd be rich.