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For those of you using ExpressionEngine in high traffic environments: political/government sites like Change.gov or gov.ca.gov, social action groups like We Can Solve It, daily newspapers like Periódicos Zócalo, entertainment sites like iLounge and the Sundance Film Festival, business sites like BMI and paidContent.org, or even high profile blogs like Subtraction and Veerle Pieters, there’s a hidden treat in the last build of ExpressionEngine, released this past Friday.  Ok, well maybe not hidden, but as we don’t normally add features to ExpressionEngine in build updates, this one’s a bit under the radar.

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Cool!!!

Very nice.  Like the name dropin’...especially for the skeptics.

Thanks for the post on this Derek.

Being both incredibly bogged down with work at the moment and being heavily involved in one of those names dropped this is something I definitely didn’t want to miss, but probably would have if not for the blog post.

Anyway, thanks ton.

Jamie

Very cool! I work on several sites that will occasionally see huge boosts in traffic, so this is going be to very useful.

Great stuff, I cannot wait to test this out.

Good idea…...
And, as far as name dropping, my site gets more traffic than a lot of those, including Ca. Government!

I did a wiki article here with some basic tips on server tuning…from a non-tech viewpoint.
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Server_Tuning_and_Capacity_EE/

Craig, I had no idea that Hearth.com got that type of traffic, that’s really cool, and thanks for contributing your experience to the wiki.

I did a wiki article here with some basic tips on server tuning…from a non-tech viewpoint.
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Server_Tuning_and_Capacity_EE/

Very interesting article.
Did I read the screenshot correctly that you have 2Gb RAM in the server?

Just wanted to congratulate you on this excellent note.
I have been longing for “tech. note” for as long as I join this community and this is the closest thing I have seen. Very useful (although I don’t have that kind of traffic for now) and thank you very much for writing it.

Although I’ll probably not need to use this feature, I’m very pleased you’ve dropped some names. Sometimes it’s difficult with clients who’ve often heard of Joomla and Drupal, but never heard of ExpressionEngine. Any chance someone in the know can start a Wiki entry with all the top EE-powered sites?

Just dropping Obama’s name is going to help me soooo much!

Looks like a great addition to a fantastic product.

Was just wondering if it would be possible to add in member group support so that you could say turn off hits for certain member groups? 😉

Would be great if it could do that as then I guess you could also have more realistic hit counters that way.

Just a thought though.

Best wishes,

Mark

I did a wiki article here with some basic tips on server tuning…from a non-tech viewpoint.
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Server_Tuning_and_Capacity_EE/

Very interesting article.
Did I read the screenshot correctly that you have 2Gb RAM in the server?

Yes, I think the graphic in the wiki article shows that (top command).

We use almost all of that RAM, when you consider the httpd “children” and lots of memory for MySQL. The MySQL utility mentioned there suggests the best settings.

Turning off the logging probably gave a big boost…and I don’t really need logging since google anayltics does that job.

I suspect that disk and cache I/O eventually becomes the main bottleneck. But, as I mentioned in the article, very few sites on the internet get that kind of traffic anyway. With EE, it might be wise to think of a “busy” site as over 100,000 page loads (views) per day. At that point you may have to think about the tuning.

Thanks

And of course your infrastructure and skill of the server admin will determine what “high volume” traffic is in a relative sense.  In one environments that may be 100,000 views, but some of the sites being targeted by this article are easily seeing more than 50k visitors per day, 1+ million page views per day, etc.