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Closed 10 years ago.
I have a multi-tenancy paid-for app, that I've been running in production for 18 months now. In the last few months I've been tweaking the runtime configuration to get the best performance for my buck.
I think I've found a fairly optimal solution, involving some idle instances, max instance, reserved hours etc etc.
My clients are generally European based at the moment, so I find myself turning my idle servers on for a European day, and off again at night.
This is a manual chore I'd clearly much rather do without, as its time-consuming and error-prone.
I don't intend to spend any less money, as my budgets are already set according to my client-numbers, I'm just optimising the response times they get based on their time-zones.
I'm sure I can't be alone in wanting such automated configuration, and I'm hoping it would be fairly simple to implement.
Question is, are there any plans to release an API for control of these settings?
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Closed 9 years ago.
I need to create a program where I will be storing a bunch of data, not a whole lot but a lot of financial matter
I know my answer is all over google but some of those big database folks want to charge for distribution
others only run online or on a virtual host
What is a good free database that I can embed with C and together store information locally and possibly online?
Or should I write my own?
Or should I write my own?
Don't waste time inventing your own database unless existing code doesn't do what you need.
What is a good free database that I can embed with C and together store information locally and possibly online?
From your list of requirements, SQLite should fit your needs just fine.
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We have an app that on average has 30 QPS (queries per second) and our costs around $1 per hour what gives a rough number for our GAE costs: $1 per million requests.
About half of this requests is to serve content (to real clients and search engines's bots) and another half is deferred tasks that update entities, reset cache, pre-generate some HTML, etc. We do not use backends anymore (we did but found it too difficult to sync during deployments and moved everything to task queues and are not looking back).
Just wonder how it is comparing to others? Normal? Too much? Very good?
I'm asking before we've got a new member in our team who is agitating that our costs are too high and we need to migrate to our own stand-alone server(s).
Am newbie at StackOverflow and not sure if I should/can disclose the name of the website in question (I would be happy to provide if it is allowed).
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Closed 10 years ago.
Will using plugins like the one for Facebook connect by Webtechnick slow down performance drastically? If not, what will be the extent of damage to the speed of the application?
Like Oldskool said - it depends on the plugins you are including.
I can tell you from experience, that webtechnicks Facebook plugin does not create an excessive burden on the application.
However, other plugins that you may be including, might. Depending on how they hook in to your application, and what kinds of processing/queries are being executed, will all add up.
I would suggest installing the CakePHP DebugKit to analyze the performance of your application at a relatively high level. It gives you quite a bit of information, so check it out.
Hope this helps.
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Closed 11 years ago.
Is it good to build a high traffic sites using CakePHP? I am using CakePHP for several projects, but they're very low traffic. Any examples of such site or how can I improve the performance?
This video probably sums up the answer for you (and gives a lot of good details / information) on "CakePHP at massive scale on a budget"
It talks about how they use CakePHP on VERY HIGH traffic site, how it worked, and how it ran...etc.
I believe it was on 1.2 or 1.3 as well, which is significantly slower than 2.0, so - yes - CakePHP is a completely valid option for high-traffic sites. Obviously sites like Facebook will have their own lighter, in-house framework, but - I think that's a problem not worrying about until you reach that point (and by then you'll be a millionaire anyway and won't care) :)
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Closed 9 years ago.
I am doing a project in the university which requires running of multiple instances (1000s) of a program I've written (in C++), which runs for quite a while (say 2 hours). The program is very self contained - it does not require input files, and the only dependency I think is boost.
I'm currently using the university-owned cluster of computer. However, it's quite old and the jobs dispatching and monitors services are pretty bad.
So I was wondering whether I can run my jobs elsewhere, for some money. For example, I looked a bit into Google App Engine, but as it seems every job must end after 30 seconds it is not suitable for me. Maybe Amazon EC2?
Do you know of such options?
Amazon EC2 is the classic approach for this.
Google App Engine is great, but probably to restrictive for your use case.
EC2 is definitely a very good option, as Peter says. Since you're at a university I'm guessing that cost may be an important factor, so take a look at Rackspace's cloud service as well; depending on what kind of server resources you need, this can work out quite a bit cheaper than EC2. (I don't work for Rackspace).