About the recent (lack of) site speed
Apr 16, '02 10:09:24AM
Contributed by: robg
The last week or so, you may have noticed that things have gotten a bit slow around here, relative to page loading. The load on macosxhints.com continues to grow (daily data transfer is in excess of 1.5gb on average!), and it's putting some stress on the current server and database. There are some things in the works, though, that should help improve the situation in the near future:
- We're moving to a faster machine. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, we'll be relocated from our current box to a notably faster one with lower loads.
- A long-awaited Geeklog upgrade. The 1.35 version of Geeklog is now at release candidate stage, so it should be out shortly. I have been waiting on this for quite a while, and should finally be able to upgrade from Geeklog 1.1.
- Some database structure changes. We think we can bump the speed a bit by chaning a couple of tables, but we'll probably hold off on this until after the Geeklog upgrade, to see if that addresses the problems by itself.
- We're hiring more pigeons -- just like google, we've determined that pigeons are the real key to site speed.
OK, so that last one probably won't happen. But I am trying to find ways to improve the speed, as it bothers me just as much as it does all of you!
-rob.
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