[LRUG] e-petitions site

[Max Williams]

bit OT maybe but the e-petitions site also made the news yesterday because
(apparently) there are already four petitions to bring back the death
penalty, with enough support to force a commons debate.  So it's good to see
it in the news for it being popular and working properly. (Not that i'm
saying we should bring back the death penalty i hasten to add!)

On 5 August 2011 09:47, Mickael Riga <mig at campbellhay.com> wrote:

> 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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