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We're preparing to roll out OSQA. I'm anticipating loads like this: 30,000 page views/week 3,000 new users/week 800 posts/week (either questions or answers) Does anyone have an instance like this? What hardware should I anticipate? |
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Hi Jeremy. We don't really have any recommended specs, although there are some good practices. We typically run it with memcache, which can run on the same server as the application itself. In addition, we would recommend a separate server for the database. This increases resiliency and improves performance. |
"3,000 new users a week" ... I don't know how you got your numbers, but you might want to validate them. An excellent way of doing this is using the EC2 OSQA image (starting with a Micro instance), and then increasing the server capacity when the load actually increases.
http://meta.osqa.net/questions/6211/is-there-an-amazon-image-ami-with-osqa-on-linux
Yeah you're right - the page views and posts per week is more reliable but something's gone haywire on the user count for sure. Thanks for the tip.