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* We had so many site outages last week, mainly from crushing traffic, that my hosting company recommended some changes. Here’s what they did…

We installed a front-end proxy server called Varnish. It should help with your database load by caching static pages, lowering the amount of database queries your SQL server has to process.

Whatever that is, I hope it works.

Just thought you’d like to know.

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:05 pm

Comments

They should have put foil on the rabbit ears. That always worked for me.

Comment by Old Shepherd Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:07 pm
thanks for the work! was sad when it went down.

Comment by Amalia Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:10 pm
And your proxy server’s front end is now nice and shiny.

Comment by a drop in Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:17 pm
ears…front ends. we thought you banned sexually provocative topics from this wholesome site?

Comment by circularfiringsquad Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:20 pm
It’s all G(r)eek to me. As long it does whatever they say it will do to keep your database caching and querying.

Comment by West Side the Best Side Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:27 pm
BTW Rich, which phone did you finally get?

Comment by Living in Machiaville Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:41 pm
Varnish??? That should go nicely with the shellacking Quinn’s going to get next week.

Comment by Gantt Chart Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:55 pm
I’ll cancel the order with ALCOA for more foil. Probably face a restocking fee from a minimum wage work force.

Comment by A guy... Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 2:56 pm
Rich -
Perhaps you could offer web providers the capacity to “test their ability” as it relates to traffic volumes that go from Zero to Sixty instantaneously … ??

Comment by Anyone Remember Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 3:02 pm
Damn raunerbots hogging all your bandwidth. Lol

Comment by foster brooks Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 3:14 pm
Have you tried turning it off and on again?

– MrJM

Comment by MrJM Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 3:32 pm
I came here to make a joke about shellacking, but Gantt Chart beat me and so I will retreat in shame.

Comment by elginkevin Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 4:13 pm
==Have you tried turning it off and on again?==

Works for me…

Comment by Wensicia Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 4:26 pm
Rich, that should make a difference in the load the back-end server has to carry. Kind of surprised your hosting site wasn’t already doing that since it’s a relatively cheap way to handle higher volumes if part of the data is unchanging.

Comment by RNUG Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 5:37 pm
It might be helpful if you post a message about the site being down on your twitter page etc. the next time the site is down for an extended time.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 6:23 pm
===helpful if you post a message about the site being down on your twitter===

I did

Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Oct 27, 14 @ 6:46 pm

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