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We decided to change the way we are serving our store and other websites. Fuelcollective.com hosts all the app sites and the store, so it’s important to us that the site is fast, reliable, and efficient.
Our first thought was to have one server that had a lot of RAM that could run all our apps that are in PHP and Ruby on Rails. This worked except memory usage was becoming an issue. We have to run MySQL, PHP, and Ruby (enterprise) and all of those things require a lot of resources.
So as of this week, FueCollective got its own server to use with no PHP installed, just Ruby and MySQL. So far we have seen much improved performance and less resources being used by each server. On top of that, it was actually cheaper to do it this way since the other server can run on a much smaller server. We really only needed the power for the FuelCollective Server.
I’m going to try to write some more geeky articles and possibly be more technical so those with similar issues may get helped by coming across our blog. If you have any questions, please leave a comment.
