teslaworksumn / teslaworks.net

New web app for the University of Minnesota Tesla Works student organization
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Use Amazon CloudFront for static hosting #184

Closed taylortrimble closed 9 years ago

taylortrimble commented 10 years ago

Current testing shows that Amazon CloudFront takes much longer than our own static hosting.

Our Typical CF Typical
500ms 850ms

The catch is, I don't think this is actually typical, only typical right now. I think that usually our server gets slammed at certain times of the day and static hosting slows to a crawl. AWS gives us more consistency, at the cost of best-case.

Also snuck in a util function location refactor.

:warning: Necessary Update Path

Before deploying this, we must:

taylortrimble commented 10 years ago

Oh yeah, and more load time testing to come.

taylortrimble commented 10 years ago

This was informative, but not a success. I'm leaving this open so we can improve off of it, but this shouldn't be pulled as-is, and until we have a good static solution spun up.

taylortrimble commented 9 years ago

Nah.