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Is it good to build a high traffic sites using CakePHP? I am using CakePHP for several projects, but they're very low traffic. Any examples of such site or how can I improve the performance?
This video probably sums up the answer for you (and gives a lot of good details / information) on "CakePHP at massive scale on a budget"
It talks about how they use CakePHP on VERY HIGH traffic site, how it worked, and how it ran...etc.
I believe it was on 1.2 or 1.3 as well, which is significantly slower than 2.0, so - yes - CakePHP is a completely valid option for high-traffic sites. Obviously sites like Facebook will have their own lighter, in-house framework, but - I think that's a problem not worrying about until you reach that point (and by then you'll be a millionaire anyway and won't care) :)
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We have an app that on average has 30 QPS (queries per second) and our costs around $1 per hour what gives a rough number for our GAE costs: $1 per million requests.
About half of this requests is to serve content (to real clients and search engines's bots) and another half is deferred tasks that update entities, reset cache, pre-generate some HTML, etc. We do not use backends anymore (we did but found it too difficult to sync during deployments and moved everything to task queues and are not looking back).
Just wonder how it is comparing to others? Normal? Too much? Very good?
I'm asking before we've got a new member in our team who is agitating that our costs are too high and we need to migrate to our own stand-alone server(s).
Am newbie at StackOverflow and not sure if I should/can disclose the name of the website in question (I would be happy to provide if it is allowed).
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Will using plugins like the one for Facebook connect by Webtechnick slow down performance drastically? If not, what will be the extent of damage to the speed of the application?
Like Oldskool said - it depends on the plugins you are including.
I can tell you from experience, that webtechnicks Facebook plugin does not create an excessive burden on the application.
However, other plugins that you may be including, might. Depending on how they hook in to your application, and what kinds of processing/queries are being executed, will all add up.
I would suggest installing the CakePHP DebugKit to analyze the performance of your application at a relatively high level. It gives you quite a bit of information, so check it out.
Hope this helps.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Hello I'm about to implement responsive design for a major companies primary website which gets about 14 million unique visitors a month. I'm setting up the basic front end architecture and was wondering on any ideas and techniques that could make life easier. Was looking into backbone for mvvc, Zurb foundation, respond js for ie8, replace js for reducing http calls, GUI minifier...any suggestions that have made everyone's life easier after going down the same path??
Thanks
I currently have a platform that runs the same UX on chrome, ie8+, ff, opera, safari, ios, and android.
I would say do a lot of testing, and make sure to only use cross browser implementations.
Try not to be too cutting edge, or you will drown yourself trying to spotfix the environments which do not support those features. http://www.caniuse.com is a nice resource.
Avoid using explicit sizing.
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I have a multi-tenancy paid-for app, that I've been running in production for 18 months now. In the last few months I've been tweaking the runtime configuration to get the best performance for my buck.
I think I've found a fairly optimal solution, involving some idle instances, max instance, reserved hours etc etc.
My clients are generally European based at the moment, so I find myself turning my idle servers on for a European day, and off again at night.
This is a manual chore I'd clearly much rather do without, as its time-consuming and error-prone.
I don't intend to spend any less money, as my budgets are already set according to my client-numbers, I'm just optimising the response times they get based on their time-zones.
I'm sure I can't be alone in wanting such automated configuration, and I'm hoping it would be fairly simple to implement.
Question is, are there any plans to release an API for control of these settings?
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Amazon did a great job by providing an online calculator for AWS; resides here:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
Which really helps to find your way among a swarm of cloud options.
Is there similar a tool for GAE (Google App Engine) or Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft will have a calculator and other tools around PDC.
newdesic has a tool that you can use - http://azureroi.cloudapp.net/
Not that I'm aware of. Of course, lacking tiered pricing, calculating costs for App Engine is very straightforward - just multiply expected usage by cost-per-unit for each of the 5 dimensions.
There is an unofficial billing calculator for Google App Engine.
I tried this diagnostic tool which seems good for making an estimation:
http://www.whitestratus.com/cloud-platform-diagnostic-tool