Re: New cocoon site

[Ovidiu Predescu <ov...@cup.hp.com>]

Sergio,

A very nice looking site, congratulations! And from your description
it uses a very professional deployment too.

Keep up the good work!

Best regards,
-- 
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:17:06 +0100, Sergio Carvalho <se...@acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Congratulations to all Cocoon 2 developers! The site I've been developing the
> last couple of months has now gone on full launch. You can see it on:
>  http://www.portugalmail.pt
>  http://www.portugalmail.com
> (I'm sorry for the language. There's only a portuguese version...)
> 
> I took some risks opting for Cocoon, but C2 was the only technology that would
> allow me to do the site in a couple of months by myself. I must say I'm really
> impressed at how C2 handles load. Portugalmail is the leading portuguese free
> e-mail provider. The site serves 8 million pages a month (measured by banner
> impressions by DART). Typically, at any given moment, it is serving between 100
> and 200 requests, with peaks of 400. After HTTP caching, both by ISPs and by
> front-side caching, the dynamic server takes about 10% of the load, which sums
> up to 800k pages a month, for a month average of ~3s per page. Really excellent!
> 
> 
> The site is being served by two beautiful VA Linux boxes (gotta love the blue
> leds). One runs squid and Apache/mod_gzip,mod_php, and the other Tomcat and
> Postgresql. There is room for improvement on the "dynamic" box by upgrading both
> the RDBMS and the servlet container, but for now everything is happily humming
> along. If anyone is worried about C2's ability to handle large loads, here's the
> proof. It can handle large loads, and it can do it better than the common
> PHP/mod_perl. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Sergio Carvalho
> ---------------
> sergio.carvalho@acm.org
> 
> If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you

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