Subject: Re: Success stories From: Vivek Khera Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:34:32 -0500 Subject: Microsoft Network, 1 million hits per week through modperl >>>>> "LS" == Lincoln Stein writes: LS> I'm looking for more mod_perl success stories like the one that Jeff LS> posted the other day. They will be used for vignettes in an The Microsoft Network promotion running to increase subscribership located at http://winamillion.msn.com/ is run on mod_perl. The contest ends at the end of the month, so check it out before then ;-) Anyhow, the system is currently pounding nearly 10 million hits per week to the web pages, of which about 1 million go through mod_perl. Each of those accesses runs through on averate 3 SQL queries to a MySQL database and 2 references to DB_File databases. There is no way in heck it would have run without mod_perl. By the way, this is using Squid in accelerator mode, as I described in the tuning docs. Squid handles about 93% of the content (the static and mostly static stuff). v. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-258-8292 PGP/MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/