> -----Original Message----- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:18 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Slow (sorta) site issues - Ideas? > > In a shared environment you have to ask yourself to what degree optimizing > the performance of your site's code is ultimately going to improve your > web site's performance. Even if you were to increase performance 10-fold > it's unlikely you'll see anywhere near that performance gain if there are > 200 other web sites on the same server. It will of course depend on what > those other sites are doing when yours is busy, but you have so little > control over this that all you can do is cross your fingers. If you knew > that your site was going to use a significant percentage of the server's > resources then it may be worth the effort. If you don't know this then > it's just a crap-shoot.
Too true - believe me, I understand this (this is the ninth year I've done this site and we've had similar problems every year). In this case our application, just on that one day, uses up to and over 95% of the available resources. Our host annually threatens to shut us down to protect the integrity of the other applications on the box and we annually start slowly down just in the nick of time. For example, last year we did just under 775,000 page views (not "hits") for the month of December. But a third of those views were on the 31st (and 20% of them were on the 30th and 11% on the 29th - it's quite a steep, but regular, curve). A full quarter of the traffic for the 31st came in between 10am and noon. It's around 11:15 every year that we get a call from the host. ;^) Of course these aren't insanely large numbers but in general they're pretty high. But for a shared hosting account they're quite high. My worry this year is that 1) New Year's Eve is on a Friday, 2) It's now a holiday for nearly everybody and 3) it's predicted to be the warmest New Year's Eve in many years. I worry that we're going to do significantly more traffic this year. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188884 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
