On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Scott Olmsted <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a client with an educational site that has about twenty math > and vocabulary games written in Flash. The Flash code reads past > scores from the site (hosted at RailsPlayground) and then writes new > scores at times as the user plays the games. It may be writing a file > as large as 100K or more, with lots of score information for all the > games. > > The client would like to sell this into Asian markets, but three > potential customers in China have reported the site is too slow. > > First: since I can't get any more detail about exactly what is meant > by "too slow", is there any easy way to access the site as if I were > in Asia, realizing of course that there will be extra latency for the > extra trip across the Pacific? > > If the unacceptable performance is due to high-latency communication > with the Rails site and not due to the initial loading of the Flash > (which could be helped by hosting it on Amazon's S3 servers in Asia), > what, if anything, can be done about that? > > Thanks, > > Scott > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
