[Cialug] Last night's excitement when Reddit melted our server

[David Michael]

I'd give Varnish a try if you haven't before. Its great for caching, i've
used it on several Drupal and Wordpress sites that are mostly static with
great success.
https://www.varnish-cache.org/


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:14:38PM -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.bearfruit.org/2013/04/19/reddit-is-melting-our-server-heres-what-we-did-nginx-apache-django-and-mysql/
> >
> > The takeaway is that, for best results, more static is more good. :-)
>
> Totally... can't be said enough!
>
> > Hindsight is alway 20/20, but if you have any insight you'd like to
> > share, I'd love to hear it. Feel free to either reply here or on the
> > post if you think all of the web would like to read it.
>
> This is a huge subject but I'll mention two things.
>
> First, Google has an excellent public resource for web developers that
> they currently call PageSpeed Insights.
>
> https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
>
> It's really helpful, and lists several improvements that could be made
> to the server in question.  Try a bunch of sites for comparison!
>
> Second, Google (again!  thanks google) recently released zopfli:
>
>  "Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a new zlib (gzip, deflate)
>   compatible compressor. This compressor takes more time
>   (~100x slower), but compresses around 5% better than zlib
>   and better than any other zlib-compatible compressor we have
>   found."
>
> https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/
>
> I use it for webpages and find about a 4% improvement over "gzip -9".
> Just a comparison of /etc/services copied to ~ for quick typing:
>
> $ ls -l services* | awk '{print $5, $9}'|sort -rn
> 10423 services
> 4161 services.gz
> 4090 services.bz2
> 4070 services.7z
> 4017 services.zopfli.gz
>
> Here I used -9 or -mx=9 depending on the tool for maximum compression.
>
> Nicolai
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David Michael