Relocated, pruned and updates resumed
Friday, April 3rd, 2009I’ve moved tf2.4fite.com off to a new host over the last few days. The transition should be complete, but if you see an ‘offline’ message that means you’re hitting the old web server - your DNS should update soon enough to see the new one.
The new host is basically a virtual server under my control so I’ve tweaked mysql a little to suit my needs, meaning a massive increase in rendering speed for some uncached pages.
At the old host with restricted mysql resources, the completely uncached homepage would sometimes take up to 20 seconds to render. Now it’s more like 200ms on average when uncached, or < 10ms otherwise.
Get what you pay for I guess. I’ll be using the server for a few other things so I can justify bit of a cost increase to myself.
During this process I pruned off data for players that haven’t been updated in 6 months or more. I may start shifting the site more towards updates for members only, period, instead of a mix. I haven’t decided yet.
All this adds up to a faster-responding site which should see updates for members happen on schedule for the forseeable future.