Comment rating system
└ posted on Wednesday, 23 October 2013, by Novil
Some of you may miss the comment rating system. But I have decided to not reactivate it yet, because it definitely costs some performance and I don’t want to gamble with the webserver resources again. Sandra and Woo and Gaia together had over 150,000 page views per day during the last two weeks, and Monday even saw a new all-time record with 166,960 page views for the English version of Sandra and Woo alone. Unfortunately, I have almost no chance to measure the resource consumption since I’m using a managed hosting service without access to the server itself.
Maybe you should switch to a more scalable hosting service. I’m not sure what your back end is implemented with, but maybe something like Heroku, Google App Engine, or Amazon Web Services would work…
Whoa, that’s some serious traffic. I wonder how many readers you have at this point? I’m sure a lot of those pageviews are refreshes. Have you done a unique IP count recently?
Ajedi32 wrote:
Such services are MUCH more expensive than traditional hosting. Unfortunately, the larger hosting packages of my hosting provider are not very attractive and moving to another host is A LOT of work that is not justified if not absolutely necessary.
Xezlec wrote:
Counting the amount of actual readers is very hard without a service such as http://www.comicrank.com/ provided in the past.