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AiCache – Keeps Your Servers Alive
We’ve been trialling aiCache, a software caching solution, for nearly two months now. AiCache sits in front of our load balancer and caches all our static files and pages limiting the amount of traffic to our app servers and more importantly, calls to our database.
We’ve had a few teething problems while setting up and adjusting for the various foibles of our sites, but now it’s tuned up it’s really handling things well. Last week we made a link on the home page of IMDB which sent us a huge amount of traffic over a 24 hour period. AiCache handled everything that was thrown at it without batting an eye lid.
If you’ve been running out of options, trying to keep your site up, then this is a recommended solution to your problems.
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July 13th, 2010 at 1:54 am
can you talk about more specific numbers?
how much traffic was that? how many webservers did aicache front? etc..
July 13th, 2010 at 10:54 am
aiCache is pointing at 2 of our busy sites. Between them they would have been doing about 60k page views ph.
Normally under this kind of traffic our load balancer would spawn 5 or 6 app servers, but I didn’t notice any extra servers during the traffic peak and there was no slow down on the sites.
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