I think a lot of cloud developers have lost touch about what a modern dedicated server is capable of.
In February our website was top 3,000 on Alexa. 150 requests a second on average looking over that month. Those are dynamically generated pages, since all the static assets are served by CDN.
What handles all that?
3 servers running a PHP application. Oh, and the Postgres database is sitting on one of those servers and replicates to one of the others.
We can do it with 2, but we have 3 so that if some of them dies we don't have to worry.
These are the cheapest servers that Softlayer offers and they run at a low load average.
In February our website was top 3,000 on Alexa. 150 requests a second on average looking over that month. Those are dynamically generated pages, since all the static assets are served by CDN.
What handles all that?
3 servers running a PHP application. Oh, and the Postgres database is sitting on one of those servers and replicates to one of the others.
We can do it with 2, but we have 3 so that if some of them dies we don't have to worry.
These are the cheapest servers that Softlayer offers and they run at a low load average.