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posted by NCommander on Friday March 21 2014, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the 40-minutes-by-the-clock dept.
We're back up and running, with a slightly longer than expected downtime. As part of this maintenance cycle, we've installed new varnish configuration files which *should* hopefully fix the long standing issues with logging in, as well as articles not showing up on the main page.

Furthermore, we've dumped the static page generation used by slash in favor of simply varnishing everything. Now anonymous users are on a 5 minute page cache (so new comments and such will take a bit of time to show up, consistent with the other site), which logged in users can bypass the cache and get live access to articles. A couple of things such as comment count are still dependent on slashd's freshen.pl task, so those don't update in real time (yet).

In other news, we've (finally) got a proper development server up at http://dev.soylentnews.org/, running a copy of the production database where we can stage changes and other various things before deploying here. If you want to see what we're up to before we push it live, check it out. As usual, if we make any large scale changes, we'll announce it BEFORE pushing it here.
 
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  • (Score: 2) by tynin on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:56AM

    by tynin (2013) on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:56AM (#19550) Journal

    Sounds like you are seeing a decent speed boost from varnish. Have any stats on what kind of performance boost you get from it?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:18AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:18AM (#19555) Homepage Journal

    Varnish is pretty damn impressive. When we get things a little more finalized, I plan to write a howto guide on how we varnish :-)

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