Server Update!
Hi everyone, we've been working really hard on the server situation in preparation for Blake Steeles most recent adventure!
We've been internally testing a new server software package recently, called NGinx. This provides a lot of benefits over Apache (which is what we use now!) including a smaller memory footprint and increased ability to serve pages. For example, right now our nginx server is running at 1.2GB of memory used, while hte apache servers (with the same amount of user load) are using 4GB of memory.
Here is our current graph of resources. The web server accounts for the light blue portion, which you can see is almost nonexistent now!
Right now we're running on 5 web servers. 4 of them are running apache, and one is running Nginx. We have an excellent opportunity to watch the load on all of these servers, and hope that over the next few weeks we switch to a nginx-only setup.
Thank you for your patience, and we hope to keep improving the speed of the site! :heart:
We've been internally testing a new server software package recently, called NGinx. This provides a lot of benefits over Apache (which is what we use now!) including a smaller memory footprint and increased ability to serve pages. For example, right now our nginx server is running at 1.2GB of memory used, while hte apache servers (with the same amount of user load) are using 4GB of memory.
Here is our current graph of resources. The web server accounts for the light blue portion, which you can see is almost nonexistent now!
Right now we're running on 5 web servers. 4 of them are running apache, and one is running Nginx. We have an excellent opportunity to watch the load on all of these servers, and hope that over the next few weeks we switch to a nginx-only setup.
Thank you for your patience, and we hope to keep improving the speed of the site! :heart:
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Keith