this is actually pretty cool. I left my mark for the san diego scene.
On 10/15/07, Tommy Chheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey, > I made this RoR site( http://www.jobdud.com ) to help people(who are > looking for a job) find more about the jobs/internships they are > applying to so they don't have to waste time applying to a job they > wouldn't want to work at. Kinda like Yelp.com but for jobs instead > of restaurants. > > (so please submit your job reviews of your past jobs, they can be > reported anonymously ) > > I haven't really publicized it on the big sites because I'm afraid of > the server not being able to hold up to a load. > > I've done a lot to optimize it: page caching(easier since there are > no user accounts), sql reductions(custom sql queries, includes) > > I'm using hostingrails.com with 50 MB of dedicated memory on a > mongrel server. But it is still a shared server. it's fairly cheap, > $10 a month and their support is fast. but i think their speed maybe > lacking. May just be the shared hosting aspect. Every once awhile, > the server takes a very long time to do a create task(shows >10 secs > for the DB in the log), even though most times it takes < .05 secs. > > I've downloaded http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/rails_analyzer_tools/ > and ran bench and crawler against the live site to see if it would > crash. It held up fine, but I have a feeling this isn't an extensive > site profiling technique. > > How do you guys do extensive site profiling? > > Do any of you guys have a mid-sized traffic site on a shared server? > > > Thanks for the help! > Tommy > _______________________________________________ > Sdruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby > _______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby
