LightPress http://lightpress.org A fast, template-based frontend for WordPress Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:35:14 GMT http://blogo.it/frontend/ 2.25 million page views on a Celeron http://lightpress.org/post/225-million-page-views-on-a-celeron http://lightpress.org/post/225-million-page-views-on-a-celeron Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:34:43 GMT The most trafficked blogs powered by LightPress are those published by the Italian nanopublishing company Blogo, which I helped found last year and later left. The 15 blogs are housed on an old Celeron 900, and backed by a dual-Xeon MySQL server which is mostly sitting idle thanks to our caching module.

In September, the old Celeron served 2.25 million page views, with a peak rate of 250 page views per minute on September 26 at 11:04:00. If you take into account that every page view involves several image hits (~10), at least one adserver hit (hosted on the same machine), and one stats logging hit (same machine, again), all of them served by a fat Apache, LightPress seems to handle itself pretty well under load.

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