[pLog-svn] resserver usage

[Oscar Renalias]

We can also consider the discussion to replace resserver.php with  
statically served files (the webserver would do all the work)  
officially open.

The big picture would be:

- Files stored in the gallery/ folder with their "real" names and not  
those funny-looking names we're using now.
- Albums would be real folders in disk
- Links would be like http://www.server.com/gallery/1/myalbum1/ 
myalbum2/file.jpg (pointing to a real file in disk)
- UI code would't need to change, hopefully, as we've encapsulated  
all resource code in their own class files (God bless OOP)

On the other hand, we'd lose the following features:

- "Hidden" resources
- Currently existing URLs would not work, unless we keep  
resserver.php for compatibility reasons.
- I am not sure how URLs like the one above would work with subdomains

The performance gain would probably be noticeable, even more if you  
think that the gallery/ folder could be moved somewhere else and  
files could be served by a dedicated server (only resources), and no  
processing of a PHP script would be required.

I am not saying that this going to be done like this but I'd like to  
know your views...

On 28 Sep 2006, at 18:42, Jon Daley wrote:

> Hey nifty, this works:
>
> exec("renice +10 ".getmypid());
>
> I can put this is resserver, and should be able to lower the load.  
> Resources are enabled again, we will see what happens.
>
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>>> What's your plan?
>>> I'm not sure I've got one (a plan to help you, that is)
>>> On 9/28/06, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>>>>         I just had to disable the resources on the blog.ch lifetype
>>>> server.  They have refused/ignored our requests to upgrade to a  
>>>> dedicated
>>>> server.  If these resources were served statically, we would  
>>>> probably be
>>>> fine - it isn't that much stuff.
>>>>         There are 400 blogs and most of them don't use any  
>>>> resources, but
>>>> those that do, will generally put a whole bunch of pictures in  
>>>> each post,
>>>> and so if you view the main page, it gets 20 or 30 requests through
>>>> resserver.php, and that is enough on this little server (1 x  
>>>> 2.4Ghz, 1GB
>>>> RAM) to cause slow downs for other users.
>>
>
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