Comments on: The month from hell http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/845 Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dusty http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/845#comment-467 Dusty Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dougthompson.com/?p=845#comment-467 Does this mean your posts on the Internet that got lost are forever lost? I had linked to them on my blog and really enjoyed them, doing my own thinking on the subject. Does this mean your posts on the Internet that got lost are forever lost? I had linked to them on my blog and really enjoyed them, doing my own thinking on the subject.

]]> By: Dusty http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/845#comment-468 Dusty Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dougthompson.com/?p=845#comment-468 ps..hope it's all in the past and all that could go wrong,has.. :) ps..hope it’s all in the past and all that could go wrong,has.. :)

]]> By: fred1st http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/845#comment-469 fred1st Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dougthompson.com/?p=845#comment-469 I agree with Dusty. Surely, you've paid your dues for this decade! It sure is nice when things are going smoothly, especially after rough seas. I don't realize how much I miss the sounding board of the blog until it's not there for me. Thanks for your blood, sweat and tears toward the good of your server residents. I agree with Dusty. Surely, you’ve paid your dues for this decade! It sure is nice when things are going smoothly, especially after rough seas. I don’t realize how much I miss the sounding board of the blog until it’s not there for me. Thanks for your blood, sweat and tears toward the good of your server residents.

]]> By: Sean Pecor http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/845#comment-470 Sean Pecor Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dougthompson.com/?p=845#comment-470 I'll have to take issue with your claim that Linux isn't capable of running high volume web sites. With over 400,000 page requests daily to my sites, I suspect the sum of traffic on my web sites is at times much, much higher than yours. Yet all of my sites, and all of my databases, and all of my supporting services (ftp, pop, smtp) are all running on a single Linux server. And my Linux server is never fully utilized, serving up page requests almost instantly despite every page containing an average of twenty database queries. And my hardware isn't terribly impressive. It's a dual Xeon 2.4ghz processor 2U server, with two 18gb SCSI drives and 2gb of RAM. I suspect that your experience may be tainted by poorly written content management software, or poorly written Perl scripts that are resource hogs. Even a $100,000 server will be brought to its knees if the software is clunky :) Outside of the realm of my own anecdotal experience, many of the most popular web sites are powered by Linux servers. Arguably the most popular web site in the world is Google, which runs massive clusters of Linux servers. Sean I’ll have to take issue with your claim that Linux isn’t capable of running high volume web sites. With over 400,000 page requests daily to my sites, I suspect the sum of traffic on my web sites is at times much, much higher than yours. Yet all of my sites, and all of my databases, and all of my supporting services (ftp, pop, smtp) are all running on a single Linux server. And my Linux server is never fully utilized, serving up page requests almost instantly despite every page containing an average of twenty database queries. And my hardware isn’t terribly impressive. It’s a dual Xeon 2.4ghz processor 2U server, with two 18gb SCSI drives and 2gb of RAM.

I suspect that your experience may be tainted by poorly written content management software, or poorly written Perl scripts that are resource hogs. Even a $100,000 server will be brought to its knees if the software is clunky :)

Outside of the realm of my own anecdotal experience, many of the most popular web sites are powered by Linux servers. Arguably the most popular web site in the world is Google, which runs massive clusters of Linux servers.

Sean

]]> By: Doug Thompson http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/845#comment-471 Doug Thompson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dougthompson.com/?p=845#comment-471 Sean: Don't know how you measure volume but 400,000 page requests a day ain't that much traffic. Capitol Hill Blue gets more requests than that an hour and averages 12.5 million page requests a day. Those are page requests, not hits. I know how to read a weblog and so do my advertisers. Event that is peanuts when compared with really high volume news sites like Washingtonpost.com or MSNBC, which get 12 million pages requests an hour. In my opinion, real volume on the Internet is measured in millions, not thousands or even hundreds of thousands. I've read the reports that Google runs on a large-scale cluster of Linux servers but we're walking about a specialized application with many, many servers. That's hardly an out-of-the-box use of RedHat. Doug Sean:

Don’t know how you measure volume but 400,000 page requests a day ain’t that much traffic. Capitol Hill Blue gets more requests than that an hour and averages 12.5 million page requests a day. Those are page requests, not hits. I know how to read a weblog and so do my advertisers. Event that is peanuts when compared with really high volume news sites like Washingtonpost.com or MSNBC, which get 12 million pages requests an hour.

In my opinion, real volume on the Internet is measured in millions, not thousands or even hundreds of thousands. I’ve read the reports that Google runs on a large-scale cluster of Linux servers but we’re walking about a specialized application with many, many servers. That’s hardly an out-of-the-box use of RedHat.

Doug

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