On 15 Jul 2010, at 15:02, André Walker wrote:
I'm developing my first "real world" Catalyst application, and all
I have available to publish it is my shared hosting on Hostmonster.
It is working, but it's dynamic fastcgi, which means that after
about a minute of inactivity the process is killed, and then, to
access it again, it takes *6 seconds* to load the page. This is
incredibly annoying. And it's gonna be a very low traffic page, so
everybody who access it will probably have to wait those 6 seconds.
Is there a way I can get static fastcgi to work there? I have ssh
access. Or maybe trap the signal the server sends to kill my process?
To speed up the startup would be awesome, is there a way to do it?
Something like Module::Compile?
No, there isn't really.
Does your shared host web server do any caching? I.e. if you serve
appropriate cache headers, then you could avoid this for most of your
hits.
Otherwise, it's probably entirely possible to make a kludge for the
front page with mod_rewrite - if you app is hit then it can write out
the HTML to disk, and you can have a mod_rewrite rule to serve the
static (cached) page if it's new enough.. Or do something more basic
like /index.html being static, and including an <img> that you know
is served from the app to wake the app up before the user clicks
anything..
But the latter solutions are a lot of messing and application level
work to do for little gain really.
You could also 'cheat', by getting a free pingdom account (which will
monitor your apps uptime, and wake it up for this monitoring every 60
seconds).. Depending how aggressively your ISP is killing fcgi
processes this could be enough to keep it hot all the time..
Other than that, I'd suggest that slicehosts or some other small VM
provider are very cheap these days ;)
Cheers
t0m
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