On: Your Version Control and Build Systems Don't Scale

[chadaustin]

From 2003 until a few months ago, I hosted my website off of a Pentium 2 in my apartment. Behind slow DSL, no less.

Once my blog posts started reaching hacker news I thought "Oh, I'll just move site out of the apartment and into the cloud!" and bought an account at prgmr.com (which I highly recommend, by the way).

However, I serve WordPress via Apache on a 256 MB VM, which clearly thrashes under load.

Tonight I will purchase an upgrade to 512 MB of RAM and play with nginx.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

p.s. I do have WP-Supercache enabled and a PHP bytecode cache. I _could_ just host at wordpress.com, but I might as well learn nginx while I'm at it...

[stevenp → chadaustin]

Such a good problem to have, Chad. ;)

[munctional → chadaustin]

nginx will be a huge improvement in terms of resource usage. :-)