Re:Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails
by caseyf on Thursday September 03, 2009 @04:16PM
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We had an automated invitation system - the usual, "put in your email, wait a while for the invite" thing. It was true that were only adding a couple hundred people a day during the early days. We weren't ready for more. We were so not prepared for the interest - it's funny to think back on it now. When we hit 5,000 users we were amazed.
I think that we had actual performance issues for about a month (maybe a little longer?) when we outgrew our single dedicated server and hobbled along until we built a more permanent home. Luckily, people were very patient and understanding.
Re:Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails
by randito on Thursday September 03, 2009 @06:52PM
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Cool! Thanks for the info. It's nice reading about people's efforts to scale mid-to-large sites. All the press is on how the "giants" (Twitter, Facebook, etc) do it.
I think that we had actual performance issues for about a month (maybe a little longer?) when we outgrew our single dedicated server and hobbled along until we built a more permanent home. Luckily, people were very patient and understanding.