on nginx.conf, all compression was commented by default (although it was enabled on another files - gzip.conf and gzip_static.conf).
I changed that, but I haven't seen much of a change on load time (despite the fact that PageSpeed Insight ranked better the page). Still checking. 2013/4/11 Marco Túlio Cícero de M. Porto <[email protected]> > sounds nginx is not gzip compressing static files, such as css and js. Is > that normal behavior ? > > > 2013/4/11 Marco Túlio Cícero de M. Porto <[email protected]> > > I'll double check that then... thanks for your help. >> >> >> 2013/4/11 LightDot <[email protected]> >> >>> You're absolutely correct. 6 seconds or even db timeouts an just a few >>> connections mean that something is wrong. It's either much more connections >>> than it seems or there is a problem in the code or even OS. >>> >>> Ricardo made a valid observation in regards to rogue bots. This problem >>> is more wide spread than many people think and these suckers can literally >>> grind your site to a halt... Check your logs for connections coming from: >>> >>> 208.115.96.0/19 >>> 212.113.32.0/21 >>> 213.186.96.0/19 >>> 217.69.128.0/21 >>> >>> There might be others, these IP ranges are a subset from a research made >>> a couple of months ago. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:49:22 PM UTC+2, Niphlod wrote: >>>> >>>> 6 seconds on a db connection (or query, btw) seems unlikely .... on >>>> this scale, even if it's true that most of the development platform (read, >>>> your home pc) are now faster than the various VPS lying around, when you >>>> coded that particular page you probably noticed a huge loading time in the >>>> first place..... >>>> >>>> if out of the blue the performances are dropping it's usually because >>>> of deployment issues or "I've been slashdotted" scenarios. >>>> A concurrency scenario of 5 pages shouldn't lead to a 504 even on the >>>> poorest platform out there ("raspberrypi scale") >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> []'s >> Marco Tulio >> > > > > -- > []'s > Marco Tulio > -- []'s Marco Tulio -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

