September 2015 Performance
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It's amazing the performance you can get from nginx.
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@johnhooks said:
It's amazing the performance you can get from nginx.
nGinx isn't serving out anything. It's only a forward proxy to handle HTTP Header redirection. It's not doing any of the work.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
It's amazing the performance you can get from nginx.
nGinx isn't serving out anything. It's only a forward proxy to handle HTTP Header redirection. It's not doing any of the work.
Ooh. I did a builtwith to see and just figured that's what you were using.
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We did not originally even use it but it is good practice to have it. It is actually slowing the site down rather than speeding it up!
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That is an incredibly fast, tiny VM. It is on Rackspace, right? I've seen that mentioned before.
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Yeah, it is on Rackspace.... found the posting right after I posted.... and you said.... but we have talked about moving it to Digital Ocean to get even more performance at a lower price. With those Floating IPs that they announced today there is even more incentive to make the switch. RS has had a lot of support issues this year, so I assume that that will be a factor in possibly moving?
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You posted the DO bit earlier today, that's why I had been thinking that.
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LOLYes, RS now, DO is under consideration. That floating IP would give us more comfort going there for sure.
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@StrongBad said:
RS has had a lot of support issues this year, so I assume that that will be a factor in possibly moving?
Yes, we have had some real support scares here and I've had support issues dealing with RS for other things. They are anything but cheap, too, which does not make them an ideal long term candidate.
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I like the "slide to Paginate" option on Mango. Trying it out as the issues on mobile are maddening. Chrome and Firefox both show the same signs. Not sure if Cyanogen is the culprit, but no other sites have given me the same compatibility problems. Desktop is perfect. The real-time refresh even on mobile is a welcomed feature.
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We are not touching our CPUs but getting another little bit of memory would be great. 2GB is anemic, but we don't swap. Getting up to 2.5GB would be plenty. No one offers that, though. We would have to make the jump to 4GB which is just not warranted at this time.
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One of the most amazing things is that we are getting this incredible performance while serving out an incredible number of page updates (the number of "views" that you see is small compared to the number of page requests as recurring requests from the same place don't get counted, so the monitoring system hitting it every few seconds isn't in that count, for example) all from an old 2.6 version of MongoDB which is much slower than MongoDB 3.x. We can't move to MongoDB 3.x because we are on too new of a version of Ubuntu. Go figure. Not happy about how poorly Ubuntu handles MongoDB updates. But once we are able to update MongoDB, we should see a real performance boost.
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@scottalanmiller do you notice any stuttering while scrolling on mobile (be it Android or IOS)? Randomly sliding out the right panel while scrolling..
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IOS is a little funky with stuttering but I find that is only when I am downgraded to 3G. On 4G or Wifi I don't have any issues with that.
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@BBigford said:
@scottalanmiller do you notice any stuttering while scrolling on mobile (be it Android or IOS)? Randomly sliding out the right panel while scrolling..
I am iOS only and don't do much mobile anymore, it is all iPhone these days. I have not seen too many issues with that. I see continuous issues with the screen needed all kinds of weird bouncing up and down to get to post something.
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Every NodeBB release seems to completely change everything about how mobile behaves.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Every NodeBB release seems to completely change everything about how mobile behaves.
It gets a bit crazy. Last year, for quite a long time, it worked really well. Then they went and broke it and it has never gotten back to where it was before.
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The mobile client is definitely something that the developers need to work on. It is often hard to believe that they have looked at it on a mobile interface themselves before releasing it given the problems that are there.
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@scottalanmiller if there was a mobile app vs formatting a web page for mobile, I'd download it in a heart beat. I surf Mango and Spiceworks on mobile when I'm out and about (70% of the time I'm on threads). A lot of people may do Facebook/Twitter for killing time, but ML/SW are my 100% go-to. Can't wait to see the improvements with the coming years as both struggle on mobile in many ways. The areas that SW struggles, ML already incorporates. Areas that ML struggles, SW incorporates.
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It used to be good and for most of 2014 I posted almost exclusively from my iPhone. Glad that I don't need to do that now. I still post from my iPhone a few times a day but it is a lot slower and more painful than it used to be.
