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W3Counter Grows Again

July 17, 2008

It’s been about 7 months since W3Counter’s last hardware upgrade, adding a beefy dual-processor dual-core server to the mix. Now, 6,000 new active accounts later, the site’s slowing down during the day again, which means there’s not enough memory and IO bandwidth to go around. I just ordered two more powerful servers from SoftLayer. [...]

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Growing W3Counter

January 6, 2008

Like every year since spinning off W3Counter from Website Goodies in 2004, it’s exceeded its hardware capacity once again in December. Initially the service shared a Celeron 2.4/512MB server with all of my websites. It then grew into its own Pentium 4 3.0GHz/1GB server, then into a 2-processor 4-core Opteron/4GB setup. This time it’s [...]

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54 million visits per day on a VPS?

October 27, 2007

More stress testing the VPS with scripts since nobody’s volunteered a real site. Just running a couple scripts continually downloading the tracker image from the VPS, it seems to be handling 2000-3000 queries per second on the database while extremely responsive.
Either something’s wrong or I underestimated just how little resources you need when you [...]