New hosting provider
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 12:09 am
it was a lot of effort, but hopefully worth it.
many users have noticed how slow this site has been recently. i certainly have. it has been hosted on a provider for Dreamhost for a long, long time now. but their service has been suffering. finally, it was time to move on. i chose Amazon.
old setup: Dreamhost private virtual server with Apache/PHP 5.2/FastCGI, Dreamhost private virtual Mysql server
new setup: Amazon EC2 instance running nginx/PHP-FPM 5.5/FastCGI, RDS Mysql
preliminary results: 20x speedup. that's not a typo. home page generation went from 1.6 seconds down to 60ms. let's see how it holds up, but i'm optimistic.
some of the RSS feeds are broken. probably other stuff i haven't figured out yet. please let me know what you find.
many users have noticed how slow this site has been recently. i certainly have. it has been hosted on a provider for Dreamhost for a long, long time now. but their service has been suffering. finally, it was time to move on. i chose Amazon.
old setup: Dreamhost private virtual server with Apache/PHP 5.2/FastCGI, Dreamhost private virtual Mysql server
new setup: Amazon EC2 instance running nginx/PHP-FPM 5.5/FastCGI, RDS Mysql
preliminary results: 20x speedup. that's not a typo. home page generation went from 1.6 seconds down to 60ms. let's see how it holds up, but i'm optimistic.
some of the RSS feeds are broken. probably other stuff i haven't figured out yet. please let me know what you find.