Re: [Catalyst] Hypothetical Site and Scalability Planning

2007-10-28 Thread Brian Kirkbride
wrote: At 21:58 2007-10-26, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: I personally think that storing images in the DB is the best place to start because if other better solutions are available later you can very easily migrate. But if you start out with filesystem migration is a little bit more cludgy in my

[Catalyst] OT: Recommendations for big-time hosting

2008-02-24 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Hello all, I'd be interested in hearing opinions from the Catalyst community on the best managed hosting. We run a Catalyst-based web service and are currently on several self-managed dedicated hosts at SoftLayer. I can't praise SoftLayer enough, but in the interest of sanity we'd like to

Re: [Catalyst] OT: Recommendations for big-time hosting

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Michele Beltrame wrote: Hi! So what's you recommendation for absolutely bullet-proof hosting that let's you sleep at night? I think pair Networks would perfectly do: http://www.pair.com - look into the Dedicated section. Talk to you soon, Michele. Thanks Michele, I have heard many good

Re: [Catalyst] Push services with catalyst

2008-03-05 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Moritz Onken wrote: Hi, I consider offering a push service for real-time data. It's AJAX based and requires a consistent connection. I'm not sure about the memory usage of this. I plan to run the catalyst app as fastcgi server. Does every consistent connection create an extra fastcgi

Re: [Catalyst] Push services with catalyst

2008-03-05 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Moritz Onken wrote: I'm combining ajax with push. So it's a real push service, the website is not pulling the data on a constant time rate. A process per client is really bad. I'll need to serve hundreds of client at the same time. Seems like push is not an option... Ah... after I clicked

Re: [Catalyst] Capture page on server?

2008-06-23 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Martin Ellison wrote: I actually want to save a static copy of the front page to improve load times. My fastcgi process sometimes disappears (I'm on shared hosting and I think they auto-cancel stale processes), and it takes a while for the process to be restarted, which impacts the first page

[Catalyst] [OT] Event-driven middleware?

2009-02-04 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Hello Catalyst-world, We have a Catalyst app that is fronted by Lighttpd and we're looking to switch to NginX instead. Problem is that we have a number of policy based rules that are executed on a per-request basis. These are currently implemented as mod_magnet scripts. Ideally we'd like