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

[Theron Conrey]

I'd recommend varnish as well.  Got it deployed on a high traffic site
and I'm impressed.

-Theron

On Apr 20, 2013, at 9:16 PM, David Michael <1.david.michael at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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