Quikmaps gets a new server
Scaling with rails… This will be especially of interest to those who’ve had to deal with quikmaps downtime due to past hosting provider issues.
Over the weekend Quikmaps was ported over to a new server, and is now hosted by the fine folks at rimuhosting.com. This new server configuration gives Quikmaps it’s own dedicated portion of system resources, detaching us from the slow-downs often encountered with the previous shared hosting plan, and allowing us to scale effectively when quikmaps are posted on high-traffic websites. In short, we have a much bigger and much more stable computer.
For those of you interested in the ruby on rails techno-speak, we’ve set up an apache 2.2 front-end on a Linux VPS, using mod_proxy_balancer to manage a cluster of (for now) 4 mongrel processes. A number of high-profile ROR applications employ an identical strategy, including the official ruby on rails site.
Paul Puente said,
November 3, 2006 @ 4:31 am
I just starting using quikmaps and like what I see. I have no problem creating a map, but after I save the map and then later attempt to edit it I receive an error message and the site just crashes. The error message is “Internet Explorer cannot open the site http://www.quikmaps.com/edit/16199. Operation aborted.” and then the page just closes. I have tried this with IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.0
Any suggestions?
Paul
Harry said,
November 5, 2006 @ 3:51 pm
Very good news.
I alsofell the display is faster (twice?).
Very good news….
HArry