Re: High traffic websites... - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

I thought there was a connection there, but they're not listed on the
bricolage or kineticode websites.

Robert Treat

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:32, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Oh and Salon? Don't they use Bricolage and thus PostgreSQL?
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:30 -0500, Robert Treat wrote:
> > I'm sure that a lot of you saw the article on /. a couple days ago about
> > "PostgreSQL on big sites?", where someone asked for a list of high
> > traffic websites that are using PostgreSQL on the backend.  Of course
> > there were a bunch of the standard replies about Afilias Inc and
> > pointing to the case studies on the PostgreSQL website, but out of all
> > of the replies I saw only one seemed like it really fit the bill of a
> > high traffic website (Whitepages.com, if you work for this company
> > please drop me an email). Now I know of some high traffic (I think they
> > have high traffic) sites that use PostgreSQL (mobygames, cdbaby), and  I
> > know that some of the sites using popular PostgreSQL based CMS systems
> > have good traffic (http://openacs.org/community/sites/,
> > http://www.bricolage.cc/about/sites/), but this got me wondering and
> > thinking so I looked up a list of the top 100 high traffic websites
> > (English only: see th list I used at
> > http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=lang〈=en) and started
> > going through the list: Yahoo...oracle/my$ql, MSNBC...M$,
> > Google...homegrown, Passport.net....m$, EBay...oracle, M$....M$,
> > Amazon...Oracle, Fastclick...unknown, AOLAnywhere...Oracle,
> > Google.uk...homegrown... wow... pretty depressing, although we do come
> > out on par with db2 (unless fastclick uses them.. oh my) Scrolling down
> > through the list I really didn't see any sites that I knew that use
> > PostgreSQL... so I wondered if anyone else could vouch for any that do,
> > and/or also any other really high traffic sites (lets say more than 100
> > million page views a day?)  It would be nice to get a list of these
> > companies into the known world... right now we seem on the short end of
> > this segment.
> >
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