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Does anyone have a 500,000 daily pageview site?

October 21, 2007

The VPS is handling artificial load well. Now I need a real test, but I don’t have any sites getting nearly enough page views to see if the VPS will slow down with more realistic data. Anyone want to volunteer their high traffic site for a day?

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Reduce Load By Storing Sessions in Memory

June 1, 2007

Another quick tip for reducing server load: keep your sessions in memory instead of on disk. For a dynamic, high traffic site, like a very active message board, your disk is already busy handling all the database work. Take some load off it by moving session storage to memory.