1,000,000 page views a day
Yesterday we passed the 1,000,000 page views a day for the first time and hits on the assets server (which is presently on the same box) were peaking at 100 hits per second. So, not bad for a single fairly low powered server.
From what I’ve read, The Planet have now upgraded the bandwidth on their virtual rack product to 1 Gb. This makes it much more useful and I now plan to get two new servers in a virtual rack, one running the applications server and one running the database. I’ll leave the present server doing mail (because it is such a pain to change the IP address of a mail server) and also serving the assets.
For the new servers I’m not going to bother so much about CPU but I will be looking at memory and the speed of the hard drive as the main issue has been IO.