Sensible Performance/Growth Strategies?

[Raina Gustafson]

Ok. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I will look into Nginx FastCgi.
How does it compare with Varnish?

What tools do you use for stress testing/performance measurements?

Thanks!


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Hone Watson <hone at codingstore.com> wrote:
> I would say you can run Magento with APC, php-fpm and easily server a
> few hundred visitors per day on 512mb on a Debian/Ubuntu/FreeBsd
> build.  I have a set up on the same spec and Magento can serve fresh
> pages in less than a second (which is still very slow for a cms but
> much faster for Magento on Apache etc).  You should be able to serve a
> few thousand page views a day comfortably on a set up like this.
>
> You can use Nginx FastCgi Cache instead of Varnish.
>
> I haven't tried Memcached with Magento.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Raina Gustafson <raina at thequeensmen.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking for advice on how to get the most out of my servers, and
>> am looking for information on the advantages/disadvantages of various
>> strategies.
>>
>> Right now, I have a production (ve) from Media Temple with 1GB and a
>> development (ve) with 512MB. I'm running one installation of Magento,
>> and get between 100-300 visitors per day. My traffic is directly
>> proportional to the number of products in my catalog, so I know that
>> as I add more products I will receive more traffic. Obviously, it's a
>> humble little operation right now.
>>
>> Last spring, I naively set up Apache with APC Cache and Varnish, not
>> realizing that it wouldn't support SSL without further intervention.
>> Since Nginx can support SSL with or without Varnish, and since it has
>> such a great reputation for performance, I made the switch.
>>
>> On the production server, I just have Nginx running by itself right
>> now while I work out a better system. I installed APC on the dev
>> server this morning, which seems to be helping with PHP memory
>> consumption. I intend to install Varnish as well, and should attempt
>> to optimize MySQL, but thought I'd consult the community before
>> proceeding since I'm not completely confident in the path I'm on.
>>
>> I don't really know how to weigh the pros and cons of creating a more
>> complicated system vs. paying for a more powerful server. Nor do I
>> understand at what point I should start considering memcached, load
>> balancing, etc. There are likely more appropriate steps between where
>> I'm at now and those solutions, but I'd love to have a plan of action
>> established for the future.
>>
>> Any thoughts? Any resources where I can further educate myself? Thanks!
>>
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