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E-Bay Style Website

  • 24-01-2006 10:14am
    #1
    darren85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭


    If I have on line worldwide E-bay style site with up to quarter million registered users what different type of technology (hardware, software, etc.) would the database need to support the site?


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  • #2
    MiCr0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭MiCr0


    Thats waaaay to vague to begin to answer propery


  • #3
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    You might find your answer here:

    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers

    Good insight into the huge array of servers behind wikimedia.

    Roughly you're looking at three things for a site of that magnitude:

    Proxy server cluster for caching of web requests.
    Web server cluster for unique requests.
    Database cluster for unique requests.

    Size and implementation may vary (i.e. it could be squid/isa, iis/apache and mysql/oracle(RAC)), but thats the very basic structure for large sites.


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