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A web app for reviewing code (and other text), written in node.js using redis as the persistent store.
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Hosting #114

Open spratt opened 11 years ago

spratt commented 11 years ago

I think it's about time we talk about what we want to do after the course is over. Do we want to keep hosting on my WebFaction account (which is basically free)? Do we want to go with something more elastic in case we get a sudden surge of traffic? Do we want to split the difference and use some kind of CDN to serve the front-end but keep the back-end on a central server?

On my hardware, the back-end can respond to about 200 requests per second (not counting loading the front-end). The front-end is big, though.

cdelahousse commented 11 years ago

I think this is a question we should answers a bit further down the road. We don't have much in terms of users nor functionality. Once our app becomes a bit more polished, we should revisit this question.

For now, I think WebFaction is fine.

bheesham commented 11 years ago

Well, I have a webfaction too. I can look into a way for my redis, to talk to your redis and we'll have a backup. It might be possible to do some reverse proxying.

spratt commented 11 years ago

It would be wicked if we could do some sort of CDN type thing. Since your server is in Europe and mine is in the US, if we each served to requests coming from nearby it would be faster for folks.

psimonyi commented 11 years ago

Recently read: http://www.peterbe.com/plog/never-put-external-javascript-in-the-head Summary: minimize DNS lookups.

spratt commented 11 years ago

If the whole front-end is loaded by CDN, the extra DNS lookup would only happen when querying the back-end.

spratt commented 11 years ago

Actually, we're already guilty of doing this to get the persona library.

psimonyi commented 11 years ago

I thought the Persona library was loaded asynchronously. (But we should not show the button until it's loaded... separate issue, I guess.)

spratt commented 11 years ago

Persona is loaded by require...which I think is async.