Just a quick note to say that the local cache functionality of my Spandex Memcache Store Plugin has been included in Ruby on Rails 2.3 RC1. After I released the plugin I was asked to submit a patch to Rails Edge adding it’s functionality – which I did over my Christmas break. My changes have [...]
So, you’ve launched your website and increasingly people are actually using it! Congratulations. Money is probably tight and your server(s) are starting to feel the strain but you can’t buy more – people get turned off by slow responding sites and traffic is $$. What do do?
A couple of months back we had Nigel talking at WellRailed about a Foreign Key Constraint plugin he uses with Rails and then just this week the topic was brought up again for me with a client. I’ve found it’s something that pops up every now and again. Given this is such a polarizing issue [...]
After watching a rather sloppy rugby game in which the All Blacks couldn’t hold onto a ball to save themselves I jumped back online to find my gem updating process was still using lots of memory and no cpu. After being amused by the comparison to the rugby game I killed it and got slicehost [...]
As I eluded to yesterday I’m going down the Ubuntu track and doing this on SliceHost.
Ubuntu, because basically the wealth of resources available online for this distribution is massive compared to the likes of CentOS/RedHat. Well, the places where I look anyways. I use SliceHost for hosting Ponoko and couldn’t praise them more. For US$20 [...]
