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 Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: Speeding Up YWS |
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I'm now in the process of tweaking the code to speed up the site. While most of the loading times are due to the fact that YWS is on a shared server, some of the loading times are due to a lot of queries being passed back and forth between the site and the database. To reduce all that, I'm caching a lot of those queries for any pages that take the server more than a second to generate.
For most of the pages on YWS, the server generates the page in .5 seconds. But it used to take the server up to 7 seconds to generate the front page. I managed to reduced that to just .3 seconds with caching. But what that means is that stuff will not be instantly updated on the front page. That is, it may take a while for something new (such as a new post) to show up on the front page. But I think that's a small price to pay for lower loading times.
In any case, I think I may move the site to a new hosting provider, such as hostway. The current provider is Yahoo Small Business, and I'm not happy with it. The server speed is inconsistent, I can't send out newsletters, and the server is unreliable. Hostway has a much better reputation, and I'm hoping that if I move the site over there, YWS would run a lot faster. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Good call! |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds good to me.  |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Good idea. 
Thankies. I've been having some trouble with slowness-ness-ness... |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Right now, I'm really only testing the caching on the front page since that was the biggest lagger. If anyone is noticing long load times anywhere, with the exception of the My YWS page, let me know here.
To test to see if the front page is loading faster for you, load that one first then load the My YWS page. The two pages have the same code. The difference is that the front page is now cached while the My YWS page is not. For me, I've noticed a huge difference between the two. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Good idea, Nate...
First page loads in a split-second for me. My YWS takes a good five -eight seconds. !_! |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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The homepage took less time than saying "one-one-thousand" while the MyYWS page took 12 seconds.  |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow. DEFINITELY a lot faster. Great work! |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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Yup, it's DEFINITELY faster.
Except the chat. The chat is EXTRA scary today...
EDIT: But I think the cache is making the recent topics on the home pagestay the same from when I first came here today, and that's driving me crazy. O_o |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm experiencing the same problem. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| The homepage has been really slow loading for me ever since YWS got back up, but now it's loading normally again. I haven't noticed any particularly slow pages, but I haven't used myYWS lately. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:50 am Post subject: |
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The Recent Topics column hasn't changed in at least five hours, as Snoink mentioned. (Clearing my temp files didn't help, so it's definitely server-side-cache-related.)
Other than that, the caching is great. Even MyYWS loads faster than it used to, for whatever reason. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| Yep, I noticed the recent topics thing too. Unfortunately, it seems that the recent topics block is the cause for the slow loading times. Taking off the caching just for that increases the load time by six seconds, and sometimes more. I'm going to check to see tomorrow if there's something I can do to tweak the code for that. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:51 am Post subject: |
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Could you just place in that spot a link to a Recent Topics page (similar to the Posts Since Last Visit thread)?
Or possibly a Recent Topics popup window, like the PM notification one?
Or (and I realize it would probably be a real pain to code) a Recent Topics minimize/maximize box?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| I could do one of those, and I was thinking about the first one you brought up especially, but I really like having the recent topics listed on the front page for easy viewing. But, on the other hand, it's very aggravating to wait 10, sometimes even 30 seconds for the site to load. |
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