RealSelf.com - 1.5 million monthly visitors

[trejder (Tomasz)]

I know that it’s working fine, I was just wondering if there is a gap between mysql and postgresql

StErMi, as far as I’m concern we are not discussing a gap between two different RDBMSes here but the difference (gap) between using an older framework and switching to Yii with using the same RDBMS. Only this way you can correctly evaluate performance change between frameworks and that’s what this topic started from (though got a bit off-topic by the way! :])

[beatyale (Beatharvard)]

This is a great site.

[Leric (Leric Zhang)]

Yet another proof of the power of Yii

[koloale]

Is RealSelf.com is open source?

[samdark (Alexander Makarov)]

No.

[adiasen]

Hello,

may I ask you what the hardware setup for RealSelf.com is? Is the website running on single server or over multiple servers?

Thank you for your answer!

Cheers

[kinetik (Budi)]

Wow. Great performance!

Congratulation on your project!

[omarxp]

wow, cool.

[Nihilnovi (Mikael Chojnacki)]

Nice to see the speed increase* even without memcache =)

edit*

[g0dspeed]

Lol nice performance. Nothing in comparable to drupal lol

[gear (Garylcng)]

Given that the core of Drupal is CMF, what sort of CMS do you use on yii? Any recommendation?

[jackjermey (Jack)]

Great post Eric.

I’m in the same situation with a client project and it never occured to me that Yii could be an alternative to Drupal before I read your post and blog.

Tx for sharing.

[jeapie (Jeapiecompany)]

Really nice performance with this load

[fburhan89 (Sefburhan)]

Session data removed on redirect

I first heard about Yii on March 19th, and by the end of April we had migrated our website from Drupal to Yii. Yii was a big improvement in clarity and speed.

These charts show that the Yii performance benchmark using Hello World really does translate to real-world performance.

There are a lot of Web 2.0/social sites that started on Drupal and have outgrown it. I hope that many sites running Drupal or an older PHP framework see this Yii versus Drupal performance comparison and consider switching to Yii.

Please share or tweet this so more people find out how well Yii scales to a site with more than a million unique users. If you have questions, just ask me.

xcellent work!!

[yiibjorn (Bjorn)]

Great website, good workmanship .

Do you use any Yii extensions? For example the Yii-user extension to handle subscriptions and so or is it all custom work?

[yiiframworks]

Good job

Thanks.

[BlkRaven (Renity1001)]

I’ve been on realself but didn’t know it was powered by Yii. It looks great and loads fast. Great work.

[mafloria (Margareth Florian)]

Hi Eric,

I read your experience with Yii and Drupal, i’m analysing CMS and other frameworks for an application I need to develop. At the begining it will be so small and with few users, but in a term of six months I expect huge amount of information and users and i’ll add an e-commerce features.

One thing is that i need the first version faster and not too expensive, what do you think about the learning curve for Yii in relation with cake or rails for example(because i know drupal learning curve is a little high)

The other thing is do you see in your experience, that the performance showed in many places about Yii is constant in time? i mean if my app scale that performace continues so good in relation with other frameworks?

Thanks a lot.

[jcagentzero]

This is really amazing thinking that your site is using older version of Yii.

[khanz82 (Anthony)]

This is an awesome applications. Great work, i am very impressed.

How did you manage to come up with the SEO friendly URLs without the IDs.

I am asking because i need to get rid of the ids in my travel application eghttp://travelbuddyafrica.com/safari-destinations/193/south-africa-travel

I appreciate your pointers.

Thanks