[LRUG] e-petitions site

[Mickael Riga]

Hello,

Well, the simple use of `ab` utility already gives a lot of informations.
The most difficult thing is to predict your success and what is gonna be a "high" level.
Anyway it will always be harder to build a high volume website in Ruby and especially in Ruby on Rails.
I am sure that most of the time, the really high consuming bit could be placed in a separate faster middleware dedicated to a specific task.
Things like APIs I mean.
But like you, I don't know what went wrong in that case.

mig


On 5 Aug 2011, at 09:17, James Cumming wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> Newspapers this morning report that the e-petitions site crashed on launch, due to high volume (1,000 visitors a minute registering proposals) . Just wondering if it would be worth while investigating this further as to why this happened and how to avoid something like this happening in future RoR projects. 
> 
> What's the best to test a site for high volume?
> 
> Cheers
>  
> James Cumming, CFA
> 
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