So we got Redditdotted yesterday.
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bcqpn/scientific_evidence_of_evoluti...
This is our traffic:
http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/5/53/Rw_traffic_20130331.png
And the wiki kept right on ticking.
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Good job on your preparedness. So, what's your cache setup?
________________________________ From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 6:27 AM Subject: [MediaWiki-l] BTW, this is why you put a cache in front of MediaWiki
So we got Redditdotted yesterday.
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bcqpn/scientific_evidence_of_evoluti...
This is our traffic:
http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/5/53/Rw_traffic_20130331.png
And the wiki kept right on ticking.
- d.
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On 3 April 2013 20:05, Al Johnson alj62888@yahoo.com wrote:
From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
So we got Redditdotted yesterday. http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bcqpn/scientific_evidence_of_evoluti... This is our traffic: http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/5/53/Rw_traffic_20130331.png And the wiki kept right on ticking.
Good job on your preparedness. So, what's your cache setup?
One 4GB Linode with Apache/MySQL/Lucene, two 1GB Linodes with Squid and a load-balancer in front of the lot. Pretty simple. I'd personally have gone with Varnish, but Squid is fine too. The boxes are Ubuntu 12.04 servers, just using the distro version of squid3.
MediaWiki plays nice with Squid out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching
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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
MediaWiki plays nice with Squid out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching
Does it not require the source patches anymore? Or is that just if you want the X-Vary enhancements?
On 3 April 2013 20:24, OQ overlordq@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
MediaWiki plays nice with Squid out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching
Does it not require the source patches anymore? Or is that just if you want the X-Vary enhancements?
Well, we didn't do that. I don't *think* we did, anyway.
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On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:24:55 -0700, OQ overlordq@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
MediaWiki plays nice with Squid out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching
Does it not require the source patches anymore? Or is that just if you want the X-Vary enhancements?
Patches are for X-Vary-Options support.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Friesen daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
Patches are for X-Vary-Options support.
Which I thought was generally required to get a decent cache hit %. Or is that really a WMF specific issue?
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:02:45 -0700, OQ overlordq@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Friesen daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
Patches are for X-Vary-Options support.
Which I thought was generally required to get a decent cache hit %. Or is that really a WMF specific issue?
It's primarily for supporting things like non-session cookies without extra configuration. Most configs can get away with just not caching when cookies are involved or hardcoding the list of cookies to vary on.
Cool. I'll probably give something like that a try, which will be my first. I'm on AWS. How do you like Linode?
al
________________________________ From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com To: Al Johnson alj62888@yahoo.com; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] BTW, this is why you put a cache in front of MediaWiki
On 3 April 2013 20:05, Al Johnson alj62888@yahoo.com wrote:
From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
So we got Redditdotted yesterday. http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bcqpn/scientific_evidence_of_evoluti... This is our traffic: http://rationalwiki.org/w/images/5/53/Rw_traffic_20130331.png And the wiki kept right on ticking.
Good job on your preparedness. So, what's your cache setup?
One 4GB Linode with Apache/MySQL/Lucene, two 1GB Linodes with Squid and a load-balancer in front of the lot. Pretty simple. I'd personally have gone with Varnish, but Squid is fine too. The boxes are Ubuntu 12.04 servers, just using the distro version of squid3.
MediaWiki plays nice with Squid out of the box: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching
- d.
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