If you really need to support heavy traffic then you will want to put all of your images and css out there, as well as your app specific javascripts. For javascript libraries you should be using Google's edge servers. I can't remember the name of the service, but they have most of the popular javascript libs and most of the public versions.
On 1/11/09, Levi Rosol <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
