Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 04:47 -0700, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > > On Jul 22, 9:34 pm, Le Roux Bodenstein wrote: > > > If it is to bring down application for maintenance, seems like it > > > would be easier to use Apache/mod_wsgi in daemon mode. > > > > I'll give mod_wsgi a

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
> The only criticism I have seen of lighttpd is that is has been a long > time since last release and that it can leak memory. Don't know how > valid that is, so I could be generating my own FUD here. :-) Well. I was running it for more than a year without a restart at some stage and I didn't

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Jul 22, 10:17 pm, Le Roux Bodenstein wrote: > >  http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/03/load-spikes-and-excessive-memory-usa... > > Wow. Thanks. I'm reading your entire blog now - it is really helpful. > I just realised how little I know about this. Your blog is certainly > the

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
>  http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/03/load-spikes-and-excessive-memory-usa... Wow. Thanks. I'm reading your entire blog now - it is really helpful. I just realised how little I know about this. Your blog is certainly the best resource on this topic I've ever seen. Since I'm currently running

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Jul 22, 9:34 pm, Le Roux Bodenstein wrote: > > If it is to bring down application for maintenance, seems like it > > would be easier to use Apache/mod_wsgi in daemon mode. > > I'll give mod_wsgi a go. To be honest I never looked at it before > simply because it is tied to

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
> If it is to bring down application for maintenance, seems like it > would be easier to use Apache/mod_wsgi in daemon mode. I'll give mod_wsgi a go. To be honest I never looked at it before simply because it is tied to apache. But if it can easily do everything I need using a reasonable amount

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Jul 22, 8:19 pm, Le Roux Bodenstein wrote: > I'm trying to keep my django powered cms online even when I have to > restart the app or take it down for maintenance. > > My rendered pages are generally quite cacheable and they only change > if someone content manages a page