Any tips to cut down on server load? - Page 2

H · June 14th, 2007, 6:58 PM

You can't really "cache" images in the same way you cache a dynamic script. You're prevent dependent on browser caching for images.

freetic · June 14th, 2007, 7:06 PM

Hmm. Then is there anything at all I should do in that case? Or can I just put my site back up for everyone?

freetic · June 14th, 2007, 7:39 PM

I'm opening my site back up I suppose.

Yay.

robinson.jason · June 15th, 2007, 2:49 AM

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Originally Posted by freetic

I'm opening my site back up I suppose.

Yay.

you cacheing mostly helps with those big php portals (probably like Joomla) where instead of runningthe php script each time there is a visitor ........
1) run php script to determin what content should be displayed,
2) hit the database and fetch relevant content
3) format per php layout instructions
4) send to client browser

a cache will store the content of that page (the actual HTML that was generated by all the above steps) in the DB or somewhere else (temp file, etc) so that the next visitor only does the following steps:

1) Run php to fetch cached version of the page
2) send cached page to client browser

Someone more knowledgable in DB cacheing may correct me but I think that is the general idea behind cacheing.

If you site does not have dynamic content, then there is nothign to cache.... everything alreayd is just a file on the server

jason

**davotoula** · June 15th, 2007, 5:54 AM

From browsing your site, it doesn't look like CPU intensive (high CPU load).

Since you are serving images the problem you could run into in the future is running out of bandwidth (exceeding 30GB+ per month).

Then you can look at serving the images from a third party like Amazon S3 which is a very cost efficient way to serve a lot of content.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000808.html

**Brandonnn** · June 15th, 2007, 5:58 AM

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Originally Posted by davotoula

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000808.html

amazon s3 ftw.. i use it for all image/video hosting.

freetic · June 15th, 2007, 12:56 PM

Aw, thank you guys both A LOT. That's a really good idea with the amazon site.

YAY. I bookmarked it.

**Kayla** · June 15th, 2007, 7:32 PM

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Island · June 15th, 2007, 9:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DewKnight

The server load does not represent the load just for your site, it is for the whole server. Your server may or may not be causing it.

Are we talking about a hosting account here, or a dedicated server, or a VPS?

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H after g, before i Resident. Joined in Jul 2004 Lives in N,BC,CA 8,084 posts Gave thanks: 48 Thanked 131 times	You can't really "cache" images in the same way you cache a dynamic script. You're prevent dependent on browser caching for images.

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freetic Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Aug 2005 16 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Hmm. Then is there anything at all I should do in that case? Or can I just put my site back up for everyone?

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