Jeff, No, that's the answer that I expected. When I asked the host to increase the latent pages timeout, they recommended, rather insisted, that I go to a VPS to save bandwidth for the other 150+ sites on the box (which has about 8GB RAM max). In your opinion, would a VPS with 512MB ram and a shared MSSQL database be enough for FarCry? That is the minimum VPS pkg and costs about 6 times more than the shared hosting. Can you suggest any other hosting companies with a cheaper VPS than HostMySite? BTW, I love HMS. I have been with them for about 10 years. Almost since they started. Great service and quick response time. No 'perpetual on-hold' waiting.
Thanks for your advise! Pete On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Jeff Coughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Pete, > > > I am on a shared host and almost always get the 'SeeFusion Latent > > Pages' timeout after being away from the site for a length of time > > (like overnight). Without making any changes to the application, just > > trying to navigate to the public side of the site, the hourglass spins > > for about 50 seconds and the times out with the latent pages error. > > If I append the updateapp=1 variable to the querystring I still have > > to refresh several times before it application goes into 'restarting' > > mode. It's very frustrating! > > > > Am I mising something? Is there a production mode thswitch that helps > > with the caching etc. Is there any way other than going on a vps or > > dedicated server to keep this from happening? I definaitely could not > > have this sort of timeout in production. > > > I could be wrong, but I believe the reason is because some shared > hosting companies have way too many CF sites on the same box, with not > enough hardware behind it. Then introduce bad programming (it's going > to happen whether you like it or not - someone on a box of 150+ > accounts is going to do bad programming... even a simple infinite loop > can cause issues). Essentially the server runs pretty poorly. So > their solution is to restart the CF service nightly, rather than fix > the problem by spreading the accounts on multiple servers with better > hardware. > > When you restart the servers nightly on an framework application that > requires application caching, you're going to have to re-cache the > entire application each time (making it appear slow). Analogy: Think > of emptying the gas/petrol from your vehicle every night. It's a poor > solution to shutting of the vehicle when turning the key would have > sufficed. > > Solution: Either find a better shared hosting solution, or go with > something like VPS. > > Probably not what you wanted to hear, but it is what it is. > > -- > Jeff Coughlin > Web Application Developer > http://jeffcoughlin.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" 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/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
