So I’ve been working on a project for a while with some friends, and we’re getting ready to launch the beta.
I’ve never built a website on this scale, especially not in Rails, and in the two weeks I have to prepare I need to figure out how to predict and optimize for when traffic (hopefully) hits.
What sort of tools are commonly used for load testing and analytics? How can I predict what I’ll need in two weeks, and what should I do then if we’re lucky enough to be pounded by traffic? How much traffic do you think a 256MB Slicehost slice with Passenger behind Apache could support? Should I use Rails’s built-in caching?
Thanks! Any advice, even if anecdotal, is welcome. Raph
