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. >>> > > >>> > >>> >>> >> >> >> > >> > > > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com -- Levi Rosol Twitter: @LeviRosol --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
