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Do you know what hardware (and how many servers) addons.mozilla
are running?



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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Rob Marscher
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 6:03 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Scaling Web Apps WAS Re: PHP Web
Frameworks

On 4/4/07 9:58 PM, "Nate Abele" <nate at cakephp.org> wrote:
> The Firefox Add-ons portal (https://addons.mozilla.org/) was
built  
> on CakePHP, and you can check out the source code here:
http:// 
> svn.mozilla.org/addons/trunk/site/app/.  To date, the site has
 
> handled the arguably higher load without a hitch.

That's cool that addons is using Cake.  I came across this
article by  
Mike Morgan of addons a few months ago (actually posted about a
year  
ago) about rewriting addons and using APC, LVS (linux virtual  
servers), and a memcache server:
<http://morgamic.com/2006/04/14/ 
scalable-php-with-phpa-apc-memcached-and-lvs-part-2/>.  He was  
bitching about Smarty and Pear:DB as possibly causing too much  
overhead, so it's interesting that they ended up getting
involved in  
Cake (not sure if he's still involved or not).

I've been very interested in scaling lately.  Most of my servers
ar  
using APC and I'm currently getting by with having apps only
using  
one server... but the day is rapidly approaching where I'm going
to  
have to get serious about a multiple server setup.

Is anyone here using virtual servers?  It seems to have some
nice  
benefits in terms of being able to easily move them between
physical  
boxes and scale them up to more ram/cpu.  However, I've heard
that  
you lose some performance and am trying to figure out when it's
worth  
it.  I'm talking about virtual server's at the kernel level...
like Xen.

Thanks!
-Rob
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