Aug 22 2010

6 ways to kill your server – learning how to scale the hard way

Learning how to scale isn’t easy without any prior experience. Nowadays you have plenty of websites like highscalability.com to get some inspiration, but unfortunately there is no solution that fits all websites and needs. You still have to think on your own to find a concept that works for your requirements. So did I.

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Jun 9 2010

Setting up a Testing-Environment

Let’s start with the basic setup for my test scenarios. In our office we had an old and dusty, but still working Intel Xeon 3305 left. It has 2Gigs of RAM and a 1TB SATA harddisc. It’s nothing special, but still good enough for some benchmarks.
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