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Hi all, a I run a site that after a complete redesign have gotten a lot more traffic. The site provides free flash games, so the biggest traffic share goes to serving flash files (from about 100K and up to several megabytes in size each.) I currently host the entire
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Im sure most are familiar with Facebooks 'news feed'. If not, the 'news feed' basically lists recent activity of all of your friends. I dont see how you can get this information efficiently from a DB: * Im assuming all user activity is inserted in a "
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Am I mad to consider using .Net2 and AJAX for a high-scalability application? In case you wonder why, it's the legacy of a website built on IIS and .Net 1.1, and we're looking for ways to make the content more attractive and interactive. In this
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Hello,everybody,I'm plant to building a new website like 2008.sina.com.cn 2008.sohu.com .site contents have pic news,text news,and video news.user blog ....now I have a question to ask everybody,I hope can get usefully information to here. status: 100,000,
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Hi everybody :) We have a bunch of webservers (about 14 at this time) running Apache. As application framework we're using PHP with the APC Cache installed to improve performance. For load balancing we're using a Big F5 system with dynamic ratio (SNMP driven) To sync new/
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There is a lot of information in the blogosphere describing the architecture of many popular sites, such as Google, Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, TypePad, WikiPedia and others. I've summarized this issue in a blog post here I would really appreciate your opinion on this matter.
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My company is developing a centralized web platform to service our clients. We currently use about 3Mb/s on our uplink at our ISP serving web pages for about 100 clients. We'd like to offer them statistics that mean something to their businesses and have been contemplating writing
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Hi, Can someone teach me how you implement network switch fail over since we are paranoid for single point of failure. For example, you have: a dozen web servers -> switch -> DB cluster that switch is a SPOF. How does one implement dual switch in a fail
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It's pretty slick! olla
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Although I have a basic working knowledge of memory, SSDs and the like, I am not technical...I have never developed or deployed a system. I was exposed to ram-disks years ago, when their expense limited their use to very small files or DB applications. I am looking to "
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Hi there, what do you think is crucial in the code designing of a scalable site? How does one prepare for webfarms and clusters (e.g. in PHP)? Thanks, Stephan
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Anyone knows what's behind this service? http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/ thanks!