Hello, I need advise on the best approach to deploy my Phoenix project. It is recruitment portal that will receive a huge number of applications from the first day to run for a period of six. Past experience has shown that we will get up a million applications from the go. Our plan is to use Lino…

I would always suggest a dedicated server if your budget allows :slight_smile: Check out these threads too: [image] What kind of server/infrastructure are your Elixir apps hosted on? Discussions We get quite a few hosting related questions, so I wonder whethe…

[image] shuaib: Our plan is to use Linode VPS with 6 CPU Cores, 12 GB RAM, and 8 TB Transfer. Start with this one, simulate the load that you expect, then maybe pick a bigger/smaller box and repeat the simulation. The good thing about virtualized environments is that you can add more boxes li…

Thank you. How do I simulate the load? What tool can I use to achieve that?

[image] shuaib: How do I simulate the load? What tool can I use to achieve that? You can use tsung .

Both tsung and wrk are good. I tend to prefer wrk for higher loads (it is far more efficient), and it uses lua for scripting.

I would recommend Gatling for more real benchmarks, simulating real user actions instead of raw performance

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Please suggest server specs for a large scale Phoenix application

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shuaib May 5, 2018, 9:42pm 4

Thank you @AstonJ I will read those threads