California Women's Conference website sets SilverStripe traffic record
15 Jul 2008
Yesterday the SilverStripe-powered website CaliforniaWomen.org began offering conference tickets for the largest and most dynamic gathering of women in North America. All of the tickets were sold in an unprecedented less-than-three-hour rush.
Thanks to a new caching system that shall be documented and released in an upcoming version of SilverStripe, a single webserver handled more than 80,000 page views in these key hours, in addition to associated images, animations, stylesheets, and javascript files. SilverStripe was used to handle the public-facing aspects of the conference website, and conference organisers even used the CMS to edit pages during the burst of traffic.
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It was truly a wonderful event. I was so moved by the key note speakers and found their stories very empowering
Posted on 5 Nov 2008 by Nicole Sartain
Any news about when that sweet piece of code is opened for public review? We need it bad :/
regards
Christoph
Posted on 4 Aug 2008 by Christoph Strasen
Enayet, there is not an authoritative resource on hardware requirements. It really depends on the quantity of page views you get over a month. In the case of Women's Conference there is dedicated hardware, however in other situations we have dozens of SilverStripe websites on a single basic web server (e.g. equivalent to Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2ghz with 2-4GB ram). You ought to be fine with a single server of that calibre for a few million page views per month, and only need to consider caching or more sophisticated architecture when you get traffic bursts significantly higher than that.
Posted on 29 Jul 2008 by Sigurd Magnusson
Is there a whitepaper or a FAQ devoted to the minimum hardware spec for a server that hosts the SS code and the mysql db together? I am looking to set up such a server with my IT dept. to host SS sites and they are asking these questions.
Posted on 29 Jul 2008 by Enayet Rasul
Loic, and the flash video files (.flv) are hosted on blip.tv. The CMS is used to choose the video, and supply other meta data (description, etc.)
Just to point out: we have benchmarked much higher rates of page views but this is the highest wave of traffic we know of that was caused by real human visitors :)
Posted on 17 Jul 2008 by Sigurd Magnusson
Yes it is. SS outputs several XML files which the flash then reads.
Posted on 16 Jul 2008 by Will
Is the video section handled by SilverStripe ?
Thanks
Loic
Posted on 16 Jul 2008 by Loic
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