From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david.heinemeier@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T17:29:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Large scale sites? Anyone? Anyone?

> It' might be possible since most
> of the site doen't need to keep a user state, since it's only news
> pages, no logins (except for the writers/editors which is a small
> fraction of the traffic).

That's your key. As long as there's no state, scaling doesn't really
have anything to do with Rails. Page caching will allow you to scale
high and mighty with very little effort. lighttpd is able to push out
thousands of static HTML pages per second.
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