On Mar 9, 2006, at 7:13 AM, mario ruggier wrote:

> On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:04 PM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>>> by the way, talking about current state of Quixote, douban.com is
>>> now
>>> getting 450,000 page views a day. 100% dynamically generated by
>>> qx. I
>>> might be wrong but, it seems we are a busier site than every other
>>> known ROR/django/TG installations in the world.
>>
>> Awesome.  I guess I need to work on my Chinese so I can read the
>> site. :-)
>
> I think that is more than awesome !
>
> Is that really true? That douban gets more traffic than the much
> touted django news sites? If so, that should be said out a little
> more loudly i think....
>
> How is the deployment like? What infrastructure do you use?
>

douban.com is currently running on a $1,500 home-made 1U server with
an AMD athlon 64 dual core cpu, and SATA drives. It is hosted in
Beijing. lighttpd, quixote, memcached, mysql are all running on one
machine. We'll add another server later this month.

douban.net (the english version) is running on a similar machine,
hosted in San Jose. But it's not getting much traffic.

by the way, alexa.com says that douban.com's average roundtrip
response time for browsing is much shorter than 43things.com, one of
the largest RoR deployment. granted, this might not mean much, since
it contains the network latency.


> And, as for learning some chinese... how do you say mmmmarketing in
> mmmmandarin ;-?

officially, it's "Ying Xiao", pronounced like "Ying Shiao".

> mmmmario ;)
>
>

- Bo