Best real world server environment for CI

[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]
Optimizing server for high traffic website is a beast on it's own which doesn't have much to do with CI in general. There are zillions of blogs about optimizing your webserver but in most cases it's a case to case situation.

By the time you need to worry about scaling you should have people walking around who know what's what. Everything before that is just cache, cache, cache, scaling up, then out. Then somewhere along the lines you worry about tuning hardware and maybe your code.

I can give you one tip though: stay as far away as you can from any Microsoft supplied solution. ;-)