I'm curious to hear about the largest websites that you've built or worked with. Can you share some details like the number of pages, server RAM, disk size, monthly page visits, and the tech stack or CMS you used? Also, what are the approximate monthly costs for hosting these sites? Thanks in advance!
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I developed a recruitment and onboarding system that integrated training and travel arrangements, linked to a data warehouse used for about $80-$100 billion in projects. It wasn't a public site, so the page views weren't huge, but the pressure for accuracy and quick responses was high—very different from managing public sites!
One of my projects pulled in about 50 million page views each month. We used Drupal for the CMS and VueJS for the frontend. With Varnish and Kubernetes in the mix, it really handled that traffic well! I also worked on a system that processed around 100 million messages monthly, built on Golang and using Kafka and AWS serverless. Very different but cool projects!
I once managed a site with 31 million unique visitors a month! Just one outage that lasted 4 hours cost almost $100k in lost revenue. These days, I mostly work on internal and small B2B SaaS applications using Ruby on Rails, which I've been doing for the past 19 years. It can be pretty stressful!
Thanks for sharing! I'm interested in all things web development, so any additional details would be awesome.