Ok, yeah, that makes sense. Other than moving the files over, what's
involved on the CE side? Is there a way to drive this in the config
file? Maybe put the whole theme out there?

Levi



On 1/11/09, Carl Fyffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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