VICE.com

skyer2000 · October 9, 2013, 1:43pm

Yii and Vice featured on the latest Google App Engine blog post!

kingdgm · October 12, 2013, 11:46pm

Great work!

surmay81 · January 15, 2014, 7:09am

Great to see that Yii is being used by one of the most popular website in the US, if not the world.

edwardca · March 21, 2014, 8:16pm

Great job, guys. Nice looking site and looks like it can handle quite a bit of traffic.

yiibjorn · May 9, 2014, 9:49am

Nice to see Vice running on Yii.

I understand you cannot say much about the visitor numbers, but what can you tell about performance. Can you tell something about Page Load Time? For example the normal blog pages? I’m always interested in performance of a large website.

Jeffton60 · May 10, 2014, 2:44pm

Very nice!

Ummm…are you guys for hire? (Seriously)

Jeff

Jeffton60 · May 10, 2014, 2:49pm

jmckinney:

hey all, some answers for you:

no we did not use the bootstrap widget

re: the site’s traffic, i of course cannot reveal real numbers, but i will say that it is currently on the magnitude of hundreds of thousands per day (page views)

a bit more about the performance configuration since you guys are interested:

we use a largely rewritten version of the DBConnectionMan extension to handle DB replication: http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/dbreadwritesplitting/. we are planning to release our code for this after the next Yii site we launch (next weekend)

configuration uses an nginx reverse proxy cache for http acceleration and we have been able to significantly reduce the amount of hardware running the site with that in place

this database stores the entire published works from VICE’s history for all of their regions, which is 13 years of content in over 30 countries. there is a lot of stuff in there.

amazon cloudfront for asset CDN, ooyala/akamai for video CDN

cms is also home rolled, and something we’d also like to release eventually but that wont be for a while

thanks!

j

Jeffton60 · May 10, 2014, 2:50pm

I was a little bit surprised that VICE is not responsive. I’m sure there must be a good reason.

What is it?

conglogo · May 11, 2014, 7:46am

nice work!i like it!

vuxor · November 19, 2014, 6:37am

I’m glad that Vice is now available in Serbian. Keep up the good work!

meinimoo · March 31, 2015, 7:16pm

Nice one!

Thanks

codefire · April 28, 2015, 9:47am

good job

marvix · June 13, 2015, 8:54pm

Nice work …

Is the recommended widget custom made? would share the code ?

THX

NestorAcevedo · June 17, 2018, 7:46pm

Is vice.com still developed with Yii?

samdark · July 27, 2018, 1:54pm

No idea. They haven’t used built-in scripts much so it’s hard to tell. Design is still the same though…