S3 is not the choice for this. But CloudFront definitely is: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
S3 is more for large files that don't get accessed all the time, backups and the like. CloudFront is exactly what Losty needs. I had forgotten all about CloudFront. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Levi Rosol <[email protected]> wrote: > along these lines, what about using s3 for theme images, styles and scripts? > I haven't done this yet, but wouldn't that also help? > > any thoughts on what's involved with doing this? > > -- > Levi Rosol > Twitter: @LeviRosol > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Carl Fyffe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I would play with pushing the images into an asset server. I would set >> up Apache and serve the images from a different domain. This offloads >> the processing of the images from Rails and Apache is really good at >> it. You could even put it on the same VPS without an issue. Read up on >> offloading images to an asset server for more details about how and >> why that will help. >> >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:41 AM, LostyJai <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I used http://site-perf.com/ to check the performance of my site. >> > When loading the images, the queues range from 1.5s to 8.5s towards >> > the end. >> > >> > The images are mostly part of a theme, but there is also some user >> > pictures. >> > I would say about 80% is theme, and 20% is user images. >> > >> > The images range from 50kb to less then 1kb. >> > >> > The site is hosted on a VPS server. >> > >> > On Jan 11, 1:21 am, "Carl Fyffe" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In general it isn't CE that is causing the slowdown. >> >> >> >> Here are some tips though: >> >> Use Yahoo's Y-Slow to get some tips on how to make your site faster. >> >> >> >> What are the 50 images for? User's pictures or are they part of a >> >> theme you have built for the site? >> >> >> >> How big are the images? If you are loading large images then you >> >> should make them smaller. >> >> >> >> Are you on shared hosting or vps? Vps will be better. >> >> >> >> On 1/10/09, LostyJai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I was wondering how would I go about speeding up the load time of my >> >> > community engine? >> >> > I have about 50 images loading and it takes probably 8s-10s before I >> >> > start seeing content. >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
