Wordpress.com switches to Nginx? 4 million page views per day.

[kingler]

Just to point out, WordPress.com has 4 million page views, which will
likely have more than 4 million HTTP requests...

http://wordpress.com/stats/traffic/

Anyways, sounds like a lot of big media sites are using Nginx :)

-Liang

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> We do WAY more than 4 million HTTP requests a day at Mochi Media w/
>  Nginx, powering mochiads.com, mochibot.com, etc... and we've been
>  using Nginx for well over a year :) Good news!
>
>  (though we manage to do this with far fewer servers)
>
>  -bob
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:07 PM, kingler <kingler at 72pines.com> wrote:
>  > Thanks for sharing the news. They have been using LiteSpeed for a while.
>  >
>  >  Last year in WordCamp, they mentioned that they are using more than
>  >  100 servers running WP.com, so this is great news for Nginx to go
>  >  mainstream in the US.
>  >
>  >  Congratulations!
>  >
>  >  -Liang
>  >
>  >  kingler from 72pines
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:10 PM, HonDev Developer
>  >  <developerhondev at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Wordpress.com which serves 4 million page views per day now appears to
>  >  >  have Nginx 06.29 as its frontend.
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://whois.domaintools.com/wordpress.com
>  >  >
>  >  >  Wordpress.com is one of the top 100 most visited website in the States
>  >  >  according to Quantcast getting 4 million page views per day.
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://www.quantcast.com/p-18-mFEk4J448M
>  >  >  http://www.quantcast.com/wordpress.com
>  >  >
>  >  >  Read this article for details:
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://fatalerror.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/goodbye-litespeed-hello-nginx-wordpresscom/
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >
>  >
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