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!)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 August 2011 09:47, Mickael Riga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mig@campbellhay.com">mig@campbellhay.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Well, the simple use of `ab` utility already gives a lot of informations.</div><div>The most difficult thing is to predict your success and what is gonna be a "high" level.</div>
<div>Anyway it will always be harder to build a high volume website in Ruby and especially in Ruby on Rails.</div><div>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.</div>
<div>Things like APIs I mean.</div><div>But like you, I don't know what went wrong in that case.</div><div><br></div><div>mig</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div class="im"><div>On 5 Aug 2011, at 09:17, James Cumming wrote:</div>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi All</span></div><div><br><span></span></div>
<div><span>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. <br>
</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>What's the best to test a site for high volume?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers</span></div><div> </div><div><i>James Cumming, CFA</i><br></div>
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