Peter
On 16 Feb 2007, at 11:47, Peter Jakobsson wrote:
- the web server is running on 4D Client and the images are retrieved in realtime from 4D Server. I am wondering if this causes a 'drag' on the page loading and if it would help (for example) to cache the images on the web server (outside 4D) so that 4D Web Server can serve them up as static ones (at the moment there is a handler for image requests which does a query and uses Active4D's 'write blob' command)
We serve all images from a WebSTAR server, and only the dynamic pages from 4D Server. I'm sure that this is by far the fastest way, as you can take best advantage of caching features.
- would it help to install a Gigabit switch between 4D Client and Server (it's currently 10/100 according to the hosting company) ?
I'm not an expert, but given how slow the site is I don't think you are taking advantage of the 10/100 connection to the full, and so upgrading might not be useful.
We managed to increase speed dramatically recently by adding buckets of RAM to the 4D Server and increasing the database cache so that, in effect, all the data is held in RAM. Blindingly fast searches and pages are the result!
Just my two penneth. David Wright _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
