5 Rockin' Tips for Scaling PHP to 30,000 Concurrent Users Per Server [feedly]
04 Jul 2013 A good link for tips on scaling PHP and MySql. Uses a tool on my radar called siege for load testing.
Shared via feedly // published on High Scalability // visit site
5 Rockin' Tips for Scaling PHP to 30,000 Concurrent Users Per Server
Jonathan Block, CTO at RockThePost.com, a crowdfunding company, has written a nice set of tips for smaller sites on how to scale a service on EC2 using a small two person development team.
Their service has a typical small scale structure:
- PHP's Zend Framework 2
- Two m1.medium for web servers
- ELB to split the load
- master/slave MySQL database
- Siege for load testing
The very sensible tips that can handle 30,000 concurrent users per web server: