I hope everyone is already off enjoying an early start to the weekend
while I have a fulfilling conversation with myself here on IT-DISCUSS....

I answered my own question about MySQL, and Ben (or another SAA
authority) can answer my first question off-list....

Happy weekend, everyone.
EB

On 6/13/2014 3:40 PM, Ernie Buford wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Couple of questions about moving our web app to silk hosting....
>
> This app is hosted in the gis account. You set me up with a personal
> Silk account, but I'm wondering if we could/should have a Silk account
> for the gis netID. I occasionally share the gis password with employee
> who might be working on a specific application or page the gis web
> space, and I don't want to hand over ~ebuford access for that purpose.
>
> Also, I see no mention of MySQL in the Silk User Guide. I'm assuming
> that I can seamlessly connect to an existing MySQL database from
> Silk-hosted apps, but please let me know if that is not correct (or if
> I need to know anything else about MySQL connections from Silk-hosted
> apps).
>
> Thanks,
> Ernie
>
> On 5/22/2014 3:08 PM, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>> Looks like its using a framework (CodeIgniter), which issues a lot of
>> file
>> lookups for every request (115k). For a local filesystem that
>> wouldn't be a
>> problem, but for www.uvm.edu the files are served from NFS so all those
>> lookups have to travel to other systems to resolve. This causes the
>> response time to suffer.
>>
>> You can mitigate this issue by moving the project to our silk
>> hosting, which
>> serves files from local filesystems. Let me know if you'd like to do
>> that.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On 21 May 2014, at 16:37, Ernie Buford wrote:
>>
>>> A former student/employee is developing a web map for us, and it is
>>> loading very slowly on the UVM web farm (but is snappy on his dev
>>> server).
>>> Wondering might be taking it so long to load (8-12 seconds). It's a
>>> Google
>>> API / MySQL project.
>>>
>>> http://www.uvm.edu/~gis/utc/
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Ernie