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Re:9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM by EponymousCoward on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @11:11AM (#2945863)
3000 hits over 2 hours is < 0.5 hits/second and nothing to write home about, sorry.
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Re:9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM by mkr-hn on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @11:31AM (#2945971)
The raw number wasn't the point. WP is notorious for collapsing under a gentle load without caching.
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Re:9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM by jroes on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @04:12PM (#2947333)
The commenter also didn't take into account that the req/sec was probably not evenly distributed across 2 hours.
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Re:9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM by iqster on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @01:19PM (#2946511)
I can vouch for that. I've had vanilla WP die on me from the gentle load that comes with a link going on HN. I assumed it was performant out of the box ... learned my lesson!
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