I can't help myself from asking, why did you choose rails for this in the first place?
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Mohit Sindhwani <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We are building a maps based site in which we serve out map tiles created > by us. The entire application is working well enough and we have followed > through on most of the best Rails practices to speed up things. We have > also now gone through the list of YSlow and typical HTTP practices to > further reduce the time spent in the application. > > I guess it's now time to go beyond the design and look at what can be done > with the servers. We are using a traditional Apache + Mongrel Cluster for > deployment at this time. > > I have been reading and Thin looks attractive, as do Nginx and Lighttpd. I > am wondering what we should look at next. > > Serving map data requires us to server a number of tiles (256 x 256 pixels > each) to create the map the user sees. Naturally, we will add "expires" > headers, etc. so that the client caches it (if it can). We are just > wondering if there is a recommended way to reduce the time it takes to serve > files. > > The tiles are served from a complex directory structure on four assets > domains. Is there a "very fast static file server" that you would recommend > us to use? Any experience or guidance would be great.. > > Thanks, > Mohit. > 1/9/2010 | 3:59 PM. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
