Conference Notes and Best Practices Release 1.3 ... - Read the Docs
Conference Notes and Best Practices Release 1.3 ... - Read the Docs
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<strong>Conference</strong> <strong>Notes</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Best</strong> <strong>Practices</strong>, <strong>Release</strong> <strong>1.3</strong><br />
More Requests Less Money<br />
History<br />
• Old, Old, HTML<br />
• Perl, Drupal, Rails<br />
Problem<br />
• Ads were gradually going down.<br />
• AWS bills were growing<br />
• Active scaling horizontally<br />
• Had to pay licensing fees for using software<br />
Realizations<br />
• Can’t offer commenting as well as Disqus<br />
• OK if articles dont’ appear right way for entire world as long as it eventually shows up<br />
• A little down time is manageable<br />
Solution<br />
• Managed dedicated server behind Amazon cloudfront<br />
• Use disqus<br />
Arch<br />
• Old arch, multiple high=cpu medium instances, extra large RDS instance<br />
• Over 3000/month<br />
New Arch<br />
• Dedicated server, 16gb RAM, mysql, SSD, Apache Modwsgi<br />
• Cloud instances for forums <strong>and</strong> domains redirects<br />
• Disqus<br />
• Additional cloud instances<br />
• Managed operations services<br />
• 1325/month<br />
Migrating Content<br />
• 60000 raw html articles<br />
• 4.5 million non spam comments<br />
• SQL dump <strong>and</strong> public facing templates only way to get content<br />
24 Chapter 3. <strong>Conference</strong>s
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