This week we upgraded the server hosting tracks.tra.in to a collossal 2GB slice at Slicehost! Since last year we’d been running on a 1GB slice, and have been really happy with the service we’re getting. If you want to host Tracks for yourself and can administer your own server, I’d strongly recommend Slicehost; please mention chris@tra.in or use this link if you’d like me to earn a small commission.
Since we have twice as much RAM, I increased the size of MySQL’s query cache and InnoDB buffer pool. This should improve performance overall, but fast database access only goes so far — Tracks spends most of its time in Rails, rendering as HTML the data provided by MySQL. My logs show faster DB times, but let me know if you noticed anything.
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