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Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by Muziboo.com Blog - Goodbye 503 errors

Muziboo.com Blog - Goodbye 503 errors — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:37:35 +0000

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Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:00:16 +0000

You should have a look at MySQL’s “key_buffer_size” parameter. It’s something a lot of people don’t bother with, but the default value (16M) might lead to a lot of i/o, and slow things down.

Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by Saiyine

Saiyine — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:28:14 +0000

Some benchmarks on the “order by rand()” issue and how to solve it.

http://www.saiyine.com/post.statistics-random-row.php

Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by Ariejan de Vroom

Ariejan de Vroom — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:05:12 +0000

In most apps I work on I see that rendering views takes a long time.

Using memcached here for fragement caching will speed up requests a lot – and the load on your server – dramatically!

Still, having a speedy database is always a good thing.

Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by Shai

Shai — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:45:02 +0000

https://github.com/eladmeidar/rails_indexes

Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by prateek

prateek — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:42:18 +0000

Hi Matt,

Yes. I meant automatically. I will update the article now.

Thanks,
Prateek

Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by Matt

Matt — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:30:56 +0000

When you say “Rails does not (cannot) add indexes to your database”, do you mean automatically? Because you most certainly can add indexes via migrations with the “add_index” function. You can also execute raw SQL to add the indexes if you feel like it.

Comment on Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget by sushrut

sushrut — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:21:42 +0000

Which provider you use for hosting?

Comment on Hosting your git repo on your own server by prateek

prateek — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:08:26 +0000

Hmm .. not sure … I don’t think I needed this

Nevertheless, thanks for the comment. It may save someone some trouble

Comment on Hosting your git repo on your own server by Swanand

Swanand — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:17:10 +0000

i.e. while running for the first time