# Can RoR handle a lot of traffic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 13, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-ror-handle-a-lot-of-traffic/63211 "2006-06-13T08:16:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-ror-handle-a-lot-of-traffic/63211/1 "2006-06-13T08:16:16Z")
And compared to PHP? ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-ror-handle-a-lot-of-traffic/63211/2 "2006-06-13T09:20:36Z")
> > > > > “Pål” == Pål Bergström [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > And compared to PHP? ## See section 22.7 “Case Studies” in the “Agile Web D. with Rails” book. ``` Calle D. http://www.livejournal.com/users/cdybedahl/ ``` “All printers are unreliable contraptions from the depths of hell sent to torture sysadmins.” – Russ Allbery ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 9:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-ror-handle-a-lot-of-traffic/63211/3 "2006-06-13T09:53:43Z")
Calle D. wrote: > > > > > > “P�l” == P�l Bergstr�m [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > > And compared to PHP? > > ## See section 22.7 “Case Studies” in the “Agile Web D. with Rails” book. > > ``` > Calle D. > http://www.livejournal.com/users/cdybedahl/ > > ``` > > “All printers are unreliable contraptions from the depths of hell sent > to > torture sysadmins.” – Russ Allbery Couldn’t find that, not in the second edition. ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-ror-handle-a-lot-of-traffic/63211/4 "2006-06-13T10:07:54Z")
> > > > > “Pål” == Pål Bergström [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > Couldn’t find that, not in the second edition. They took it out? Hm. ## The answer is “yes”. Since Rails invites a share-nothing architecture, it is very easy to scale horizontally with increasing load. The v1 book describes a case of a Rails installation spread over ten servers and handling about 300 requests per second of hard-to-cache real-life traffic. ``` Calle D. http://www.livejournal.com/users/cdybedahl/ "Let me answer that question with a headbutt." -- Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ``` ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-ror-handle-a-lot-of-traffic/63211/5 "2006-06-13T19:50:28Z")
> > Couldn’t find that, not in the second edition. > > They took it out? Hm. > > The answer is “yes”. Since Rails invites a share-nothing architecture, > it is very easy to scale horizontally with increasing load. The v1 > book describes a case of a Rails installation spread over ten servers > and handling about 300 requests per second of hard-to-cache real-life > traffic. This is also an interesting read… [http://poocs.net/articles/2006/03/13/the-adventures-of-scaling-stage-1](http://poocs.net/articles/2006/03/13/the-adventures-of-scaling-stage-1) ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-ror-handle-a-lot-of-traffic/63211/6 "2006-06-13T20:13:44Z")
On 6/13/06, Pål Bergström [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > And compared to PHP? [http://www.google.com/search?q=does+rails+scale](http://www.google.com/search?q=does+rails+scale) - rob