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I remember a few years back, when I had a web-site I wanted to develop, that many people recommended I go the LAMP route. Unfortunately, I never got around to studying/practicing that.

I'm currently revisiting the web-site idea.

The web-site will be dynamic, transactional, and hopefully end up with around 1,000,000 pv/mo and 300,000 members within 18 months. Will LAMP adequately support a site like that (i.e. have you seen it under a site with those specs)?

vartec
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Telis Duvoir
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Yes. 1M pv/mo is not that much. LAMP can handle that without any problem, as long as you create your site according to best practices. Which means multi-level caching, client side optimization etc.

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vartec
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While it is great to think long term, I think by the time you hit 1,000,000pv/mo you should have a wonderful group of system administrators that can better handle the server side. You'll have a lot more considerations then, like caching, clustering, and etc that are better left for people whose focus is specifically on servers.

Edit: don't get me wrong, I think it's absolutely essential that you are familiar with what your server does and be able to manage it to a point - but you should stick to what you do best.

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I believe Facebook runs on a LAMP stack. You'll be fine.

edited to add: obviously, Facebook runs a customized LAMP stack, but they still run Linux,Apache,MySQL, and PHP.

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livestrong.com runs on LAMP, it reportedly gets 4.7 million PVs per day:

$ curl -I http://www.livestrong.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) PHP/5.2.5
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:28:18 GMT
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:28:18 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
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