[rartichoke]

Twitter seems to really rag on rails but at the end the graph looked pretty good to me for their old architecture at the 95th percentile given their traffic.

Most sites won't even get 200 reqs per second total, and it's great to know that rails can pump that out on a single machine for a non-trivial app.

200 * 60 = 12,000 reqs per minute

12,000 * 60 = 720,000 reqs per hour

720,000 * 24 = 17,280,000 per day

[ksec]

Well that is assuming you can peak RPS for the whole day. Which wont be.

At 200 RPS Peak you are very likely only getting 1M per day instead of 17M.