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Re:How Mashable maintains superior performance w/ 40M views/month on Friday February 18, 2011 @07:14PM (#2237855)
They are Wordpress... Correct?
Re:Web Performance Case study: For wooga, social games are serious bus... on Friday February 18, 2011 @07:01PM (#2237817)
Wooga Social Game Stats:

Monster World, with more than 1.1 million daily active users (DAU), is a Ruby on Rails application with a MySQL/Redis backend that’s hosted on Amazon EC2. Brain Buddies (200,000+ DAU) and Bubble Island (another 1 million DAU) are both run on PHP with MySQL at Slicehost. Its newest game, Happy Hospital (already over 200,000 DAU), is a RoR app with a Redis backend hosted on dedicated machines at Hetzner.