Hi Guys, I always wonder how these sites are so fast... 1.http://www.exbii.com/ -- very fast though 10000 users are online 2.http://www.santabanta.com -- loading within 2.8 secs i am sure they are using Dedicated servers, however could someone give the specifics of how should these servers be?
they would have super lightning fast servers and optimized sites and may be the server is near your location also depends on your connection speed too !
They might also be using caching systems like Memcache and stuff which can help lighten the strain on the servers and allow it to load faster... Because most sites that get major traffic probably have some kind of caching system in the background
The amount of online guests seems a bit far fetched. I would call bluff on it. Also the Alexa data for exbii.com seems really strange. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/exbii.com But really whats important is RAM, CPU, and disk write speed. Some better CPUs are like Dual Opteron, you could also as said above use a caching system and Cluster/load balancing.
Mostly indian traffic ) I've seen this one before. It's fake traffic made through proxies and botnets.
exbii.com was previously known as xboard.us. This change was done only few weeks back and alexa stats are pretty new. If you really wanna check the stats, do it for xboard.us - http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/xboard.us FYI, this is not fake traffic, and the proof would be this page: http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=IN&ts_mode=country&lang=none Exbii ranks at 25th top visited site.
Actually that you mention. I was thinking last night for few moments about this thread. And thought maby exbii did a 301 direct from another domain and I guess you confirm this becuase that would indeed make the new domain have a skyrocketed Alexa graph.
sme said it already 1. lots of FAST memory to handle most of the traffic out of mem space rather than disk 2. ultra fast disk 3. several disks to distribute disk access to several disks 4. mem cache 5. multiple fast x86_64 CPUs 6. apache2 performance tuning with optimized StartServers and MinSpareServers 7. get rid of all gadgets and toys on server and focus on real important work to be done 8. "outsource" non-traffic related stuff to secondary server ( logging, NS, system, security, mail, etc. )
1. low latency, server in same or closer countries to you. 2. cluster/optimized/caching 3. good routing