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  • Synchronet Webserver performance

    From Deepend@VERT to All on Thu Jan 29 13:20:41 2015
    Hello everyone!

    I would like to find the best way to run php on the Synchronets built in webserver. Is there anything that I can do to make it perform better, say running something like Wordpress? I have it functioning with php but is
    very slow. Either that or best practices to possibly grab the information using a website using Apache (Apache running on seperate server)


    Thanks in advance!

    Mike

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  • From Noisome@VERT to Deepend on Wed Jan 28 17:25:55 2015
    I would like to find the best way to run php on the Synchronets built in webserver. Is there anything that I can do to make it perform better, say running something like Wordpress? I have it functioning with php but is very slow. Either that or best practices to possibly grab the information using a website using Apache (Apache running on seperate server)


    Hey Mike.

    What way do you have it setup now and what is your CPU/MEM specs? I followed the wiki entry for it and it seems to be responsive when I use it. I get near instant results on an uncached page.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Deepend on Wed Jan 28 17:15:16 2015
    Re: Synchronet Webserver performance
    By: Deepend to All on Thu Jan 29 2015 01:20 pm

    Hello everyone!

    I would like to find the best way to run php on the Synchronets built in webserver. Is there anything that I can do to make it perform better, say running something like Wordpress? I have it functioning with php but is very slow. Either that or best practices to possibly grab the information using a website using Apache (Apache running on seperate server)


    Thanks in advance!

    PHP via CGI is slower than native PHP (say, in Apache). We have it on the todo-list to look into things like FastCGI to improve the performance of external dynamic-web generation tools (like PHP), but there's really no solution (to the slowness of CGI) in Synchronet today.

    digital man

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  • From Deepend@VERT to Noisome on Thu Jan 29 18:34:05 2015
    I would like to find the best way to run php on the Synchronets built in webserver. Is there anything that I can do to make it perform better,
    say running something like Wordpress? I have it functioning with php but is very slow. Either that or best practices to possibly grab the information using a website using Apache (Apache running on seperate server)


    Hey Mike.

    What way do you have it setup now and what is your CPU/MEM specs? I followed the wiki entry for it and it seems to be responsive when I use it. I get near instant results on an uncached page.

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    Hello, Specs are a quad-core Xeon 2.66Ghz. 4GB memory. It sure is fast for a static PHP page.. even the phpinfo comes up quickly. Basically what I'd like
    to do is run a copy of WordPress on it so I could figure out an easy way to integrate the web portion of the BBS completely into my existing website. But as far as wordpress goes its its basically unusable unfortunately.


    Thanks,
    Mike

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  • From Ragnarok@ragnarok@docksud.com.ar to Deepend on Wed Jan 28 23:34:00 2015
    El 29/01/15 a las 17:20, Deepend escibió:
    Hello everyone!

    I would like to find the best way to run php on the Synchronets built in webserver. Is there anything that I can do to make it perform better, say running something like Wordpress? I have it functioning with php but is very slow. Either that or best practices to possibly grab the information using a website using Apache (Apache running on seperate server)

    I see too that Synchronet web server is not optimized for serving things
    such php

    my actual setup are running lighttpd or nginx and proxy the .ssjs files
    to synchronet web server running on non standard port like 8888
  • From Deepend@VERT to Digital Man on Thu Jan 29 19:19:57 2015
    PHP via CGI is slower than native PHP (say, in Apache). We have it on the todo-list to look into things like FastCGI to improve the performance of external dynamic-web generation tools (like PHP), but there's really no solution (to the slowness of CGI) in Synchronet today.


    Thanks for the reply..

    Is there any good way to show content from the BBS on a normal web page on another web server?

    Or am I better to just do some "<iframe src=" type stuff to show the content
    on the other webpage?

    Thanks
    Mike

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  • From Deepend@VERT to Ragnarok on Thu Jan 29 23:25:16 2015
    my actual setup are running lighttpd or nginx and proxy the .ssjs files
    to synchronet web server running on non standard port like 8888

    Is it possible to go that route when my BBS is not on the same server as the web server.

    Thanks
    Mike

  • From Digital Man@VERT to Deepend on Thu Jan 29 14:38:47 2015
    Re: Re: Synchronet Webserver performance
    By: Deepend to Digital Man on Thu Jan 29 2015 07:19 pm

    PHP via CGI is slower than native PHP (say, in Apache). We have it on
    the todo-list to look into things like FastCGI to improve the
    performance of external dynamic-web generation tools (like PHP), but there's really no solution (to the slowness of CGI) in Synchronet today.


    Thanks for the reply..

    Is there any good way to show content from the BBS on a normal web page on another web server?

    You can use jsexec as a CGI program and get any dynamic BBS data (content) that's available via the JavaScript object model in Synchronet.

    That topic is covered on this wiki page: http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:apache

    Or am I better to just do some "<iframe src=" type stuff to show the
    content on the other webpage?

    That would work too (and likely be faster than CGI).

    digital man

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  • From Noisome@VERT to Deepend on Thu Jan 29 18:59:46 2015

    Hello, Specs are a quad-core Xeon 2.66Ghz. 4GB memory. It sure is fast
    for a static PHP page.. even the phpinfo comes up quickly. Basically what I'd like to do is run a copy of WordPress on it so I could figure out an easy way to integrate the web portion of the BBS completely into my
    existing website. But as far as wordpress goes its its basically unusable unfortunately.


    I guess I'll run tests against that. I have dynamically run pages with a database, using something other than wordpress, for work and I haven't had a problem with speed. Then again, wordpress is a beast of php scripting. I wonder if these two things may speed it up for you, if desired.

    1. Using the "preload" program for php.
    2. Caching of the semi-static pages (for a blog, that's every article unless there's a change recent change that'll then re-cache the update).

    Not sure if that'll help any though. I'll run some tests myself and see.

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  • From Deepend@VERT to Noisome on Sat Jan 31 17:07:27 2015

    Not sure if that'll help any though. I'll run some tests myself and see.



    Ok I will also see what I can figure as well..

    Thanks everyone for your help.

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  • From Deepend@VERT to all on Wed Feb 4 11:40:06 2015
    Got it all working. Ended up installing Apache (win32) and doing a reverse proxy through Apache. So all works good that way,

    Thanks again everyone for your suggestions.

    Mike

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