Make 43 Things Faster

We moved 43T to virtual cloud on Monday morning. Besides problems with bounce emails all seems to be humming well. Our average time to generate a page improved and errors decreased.

We are in process of replacing web servers which some of them have been with us since the beginning and adding a new ones.

- 7 new servers will be put into production by the end of next week.
- adding 28G of memory for memcache
- planning to switch master db with a slave db box since it’s newer and faster
- going to re-index entries and comments tables
- changing architecture of www.43places.com, www.allconsuming.net, www.43people.com and www.listsofbests.com setup to offload traffic from master database to farm of slave servers
- planning to speed up search by doing it locally on each box rather then doing it across NFS mounted drives
- I can not forget about the code optimization in progress

Hopefully this all will contribute to speed and stability of 43T.

In addition:
- we added an extra RAM to our master and slave DBs bringing it to 16G each
- added extra indexes to couple of tables
- added 8G of memory to memcache
- de-normalized some of our tables
- added more front end caching
The fight continues on.

Just about in the pre-final stage of adding a new 4th box to the fleet of 43Things servers.