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Scaling Server Performance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 17, 2003 @06:40AM from the caching-for-fun-and-profit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When Ace's Hardware's article Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mainframe was posted on Slashdot, they got 590,000 hits and over 250,000 page requests during one day. This kind of traffic caused only a 21% average CPU load to their Java-based web server, which is powered by a single 550MHz UltraSparc-II CPU. In their newest article, Scaling Server Performance, Ace's Hardware explains how this was possible."

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Re:only 600, 000 per day? by stratjakt · 2003-01-17 07:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

In 1994 websites were nothing more than text documents with perhaps a handful of small .gifs in them. They werent plastered with media-intensive-ads, java applets and shockwave whizbangers, background music, video clips streaming off the same server and blah blah blah innovation.

The web-design and server world seems to be focused on quantity, not quality.

And frankly, much of what /. links to are personal sites run off of a DSL line. I think the effect has more to do with bandwidth than server load.

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