On 19 October 2012 22:29, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 October 2012 23:25, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The problem: In general, rationalwiki.org is melting under the strain. >> We can't quite afford the next step up right this moment, though want >> to plan for it, and need to keep things from intermittently blowing up >> as they are. > What we've done: Trent's rented a couple more small (512MB) Linodes to > experiment with, and put Squid on them. And we've abandoned page > counts, to slight angst from the users. So far, just running what we > can through a Squid has done *wonders* for the main server. w00t! Now > to see how our next burst of popularity goes ... And by the way, the responsiveness is wonderful. My goodness the site is fast now. Two seconds to load a random page to read, about that to read a random diff or save an edit. So yeah, if you have the symptoms we had, put a small Squid/Varnish in front and see how things go. - d. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
