The framework I am using is called SocialEngine.net v4, and it's completely written in Zend, so it's insanely super CPU intensive. SocialEngine is in PHP and uses MySQL.
I need to know what OS, what hardware you suggest (dual xeons, amd, how much ram, etc...) and how to optimize it properly to handle large amounts of traffic.
I only have 11k users right now, and it's running incredibly slow, I'm talking 7 second page load times.
The framework however does have memcached, and apc options for caching installed, but even with APC or Memcache on, it doesn't make a big enough difference...
I need to know what the best way to attack this is as far as optimizing mysql, inoodb tweaks, apache tweaks, any performance tweaks, what type of hardware, and amount of ram.
I have a very big marketing plan in place, and will probably start increasing traffic by 1,000+ signups per day... So traffic will start to rise very progressively. When I initially marketed, I did 50k uniques in 6 hours, 20k signups, and 500k pageviews... (server crashed, lost half my users... and haven't marketed since, because I been trying to rebuild)
