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Friday, 11 May 2007 |
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I have been working the last few days on making the website faster, I think I have succeeded
I will write more tomorrow but suffice to say that I have added a great deal of cahing so that the website now keeps a plain HTML copy of most pages in memory ready to pull up when you visit. This is compared to sending 200 seperate requests to the DataBase and building the web page seperately for each visitor
I have gotten the requests down to 30-40 per page + have static HTML (a small text file) ready to pull up quickly
I am also investigating moving this website over to it's own server and removingthe restrictions that a shared host brings. Notably we will be able to run software that we choose - ie faster stripped down versions and we will have full control over every aspect of the site
I am trying to make the website invulnerable to the "slashdot effect" where a popular website puts you on the front page and thousands of visitors hit your site every minute (or more).
More details tomorrow for anyone else with a slow website that they want to make faster
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