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Nitrocircus.com recently launched on Pagoda Box as a combination Magento, WordPress and CodeIgniter site (see more about hosting Magento on Pagoda Box). Nitro Circus began at MTV, featuring Travis Pastrana and his friends as they performed insane stunts. They’ve since grown into a world-wide traveling show and international brand.
With over 3.7m Facebook fans and 72K Twitter followers, even minor announcements can drive fans to the site and cause violent surges in traffic. That reality led them to Pagoda Box. Traffic spikes are painless on Pagoda Box because of the deployment and scaling processes, and proved an ideal solution for Nitro Circus.
The same features also made migration extremely simple and cost effective for waves of traffic. After performing a Magento install locally, Nitro Circus used git to deploy code to Pagoda Box. They configured the application for memcached and a dedicated mysql database, then smoothed out the Magento configuration kinks. Working in a smaller, but identical live environment kept development costs low until moving to production.
Once everything was running smoothly, they briefly scaled Magento for performance testing. “We scaled everything up quite a bit today and got it running pretty reliable up to around 150 concurrent users, which I think is probably a good spot” said Jim Carter III. “Keeping it below about 25 users has around a <1s response time, which is glorious and the best I’ve seen with Magento and this configuration.”
Once they were ready to launch the ecommerce portion of their site, Nitro Circus scaled the Magento installation back up to testing levels and pointed the DNS to their new site. Following a successful day of monitoring the Magento ecommerce portion of their site, it was a simple task to deploy the WordPress / CodeIgniter side of their site. In fact, the remainder of Nitro Circus’ site was deployed, configured, tested and launched to production within just a few hours.
So far, there’s no earthbreaking news, but in hosting that’s good. We’ll continue to watch Nitro Circus’ site (and their stunts), then update the post after a couple of significant traffic spikes.
Hi! I have one store on Magento, but I’m planning to create 2 or more stores for different countries. But I’m not imagine how to manage all my future stores at the same time. Any suggestions?
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