On 3 April 2013 20:05, Al Johnson alj62888@yahoo.com wrote:
From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
So we got Redditdotted yesterday. http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bcqpn/scientific_evidence_of_evoluti... This is our traffic: http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/5/53/Rw_traffic_20130331.png And the wiki kept right on ticking.
Good job on your preparedness. So, what's your cache setup?
One 4GB Linode with Apache/MySQL/Lucene, two 1GB Linodes with Squid and a load-balancer in front of the lot. Pretty simple. I'd personally have gone with Varnish, but Squid is fine too. The boxes are Ubuntu 12.04 servers, just using the distro version of squid3.
MediaWiki plays nice with Squid out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching
- d.