Docker operations slowing down on AWS

Re:Docker operations slowing down on AWS by AYBABTME on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:56AM (#14856190)

Not sure what your website is doing, but here's a quick thought exercise:

If you serve a page in 10s, then you can serve 259'200 pages/month.

    render_time page_view/month
    10s         259'200
    9s          288,000
    8s          324,000
    7s          370,285
    6s          432,000
    5s          518,400
    4s          648,000
    3s          864,000
    2s          1,296,000
    1s          2,592,000

So like, think 1 million views per month with 2s render time.

This is obviously skipping over a ton of details, but it's a good rule of thumb.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Docker operations slowing down on AWS by tgtweak on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:42AM (#14856557)

Website traffic can be vary heavily during some parts of the day depending on demographics. It's good practice, unless you know that traffic profile, to inflate by 2-3x your average page views per second over any time period larger than an hour.

In addition to this, one pageview may produce many requests. Both of these need to be profiled before you can estimate reasonably how much traffic a webserver can handle given it's current resources.

There are some good benchmarking tools that will load the entire page, including all it's resources, and produce a more accurate load measure in terms of r/s.

As a side note, those $5 vultr instances can handle a surprising amount of static requests per second using nginx.

[ Parent | on HN ]