RE: New, High Traffic Site running ModPerl

[Louis Roehrs <lr...@women.com>]

Please feel free.  That would be great!  Thanks!

Louis


-----Original Message-----
From: Ask Bjoern Hansen [mailto:ask@valueclick.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 9:17 PM
To: modperl-cvs@apache.org
Cc: Louis Roehrs
Subject: Re: New, High Traffic Site running ModPerl


On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote:

Great story Louis. Would you mind if we put it up on the website when we
revise it?

 - ask


> > Hi Doug,
> > 
> > At women.com, we have just completed replacing 2 third party products,
one 
> > Java-based NT IIS SQL 7 Server, the other C based OODBMS based, with a
> > mod_perl version of our message boards at Women.com Networks, Inc.
> > http://messages.women.com.  I'm the lead engineer for the project and
chose
> > this route after much aggravation with the previous products inability
to
> > scale.  We have also using mod_perl for all of our membership,
registration,
> > and personalization services for a year.
> > 
> > We are serving more pageviews on our databased-backed web site from one
> > server 
> > than we did with three previously.  Not only that, the server is still
> > idling.  The load tests are impressive, the producers are happy, the
> > engineers can add new features 
> > easily, the sales team is thrilled, and, best of all, the users are
stunned
> > at the speed of the system!  
> > 
> > This baby is meant to scale better than  any so-called "distributed web
> > application 
> > server" nightmare. 
> > 
> > The system is running on Solaris and *undisclosable* highly scalable SQL
> > database server.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Louis Roehrs
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------
> > Louis Roehrs  
> > Senior Engineer
> > louis@woofie.com
> > Internet Technology Group
> > Women.com Networks, Inc.
> > http://www.women.com
> > 650 378-6507
> > 
> 
> 

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