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Ask HN: Anyone deployed NodeJS web site for 10+Million users?

3 points| perseus323 | 12 years ago | reply

We are building a NodeJS based website with estimated 10M unique users daily. A user is defined as someone who has account on the site.

We want the backend architecture to be cheap (requires fewer servers), best performance, fault tolerant, and scalable. I would like to find out if someone has experience in deploying such a solution and may be wants to share their strategy + architecture?

Here are some further details, which I've come up with so far:

system will be deployed on CentOS on Amazon EC2 run multiple versions of NodeJS separate from one another use NginX as load balancer between multiple NodeJS instances (also does gzip compression) MongoDB for storing account information mongoose or NginX for serving static files

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[+] slugslog|12 years ago|reply
this is not a direct response to your question but..'estimated 10M unique users'? this is an estimate for business you are starting? or are you building it for someone who already has traffic and expects to grow? if it's the former, I wouldn't worry too much about the scalability just yet..by all means use nodejs if it affords you luxury of using available resource skills and meets your feature needs..if it's the latter then it all depends on what is currently being used (for the tech stack) and why that's not good enough to scale
[+] bliti|12 years ago|reply
Why NodeJS? I'm not being pedantic, just really interested as to why choose something new over proven options.
[+] penguinlinux|12 years ago|reply
Have you done some load testing on you site. how many users can't a single Centos machine support without issues? Have you tried to optimize your code? Where does your stack spend the most time? are some of your assets static?