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Site is dead slow... PS C:\> Measure-Command {curl.exe -I https://store.pine64.org/product-category/pinephone} TotalSeconds : 23.2096005

hundchenkatze 6y ago
Yeah, their site has always been abysmal to use. edit: to be fair as others pointed out, it's likely that I've mainly ended up on their store after/during the hug of death from hn/reddit.
- aquaticsunset 6y ago
  It's not usually _this_ slow though
- Shared404 6y ago
  I've only ever seen it slow directly following an HN/Reddit post. It may never have been _instant_ loading, but it's always felt fairly responsive to me.
Nux 6y ago
You sure it's not just powershell?
- svnpenn 6y ago
  After some troubleshooting, it looks like it was actually your computer that was slowing everything down. If you could just stay off the internet forever I think it will be fine.
fireTwoOneNine 6y ago
(I guess now's a good time to actually register for HN -- we end up on here often enough...) Hi, Pine64 sysadmin here... yea, our store doesn't like the big surges of traffic we get around product launches. As I speak, we've been getting about 600 concurrent connections for the last 30 minutes, and at least 450 for the last few hours. We've done some optimization behind the scenes in anticipation, but it's clearly not enough. We're going to be doing some heavy upgrades right after these preorders close.
TheSpiciestDev 6y ago
It looks like a Wordpress site, but caching or a CDN should resolve a lot of what feels slow, right?
- fireTwoOneNine 6y ago
  P64 Sysadmin here: We are using heavy caching, on WP and also browser-side. It's still not enough. We previously used Cloudflare, which obviously fixes most of these problems, but people in these types of circles tend to get pissy about CF.
  - lallysingh 6y ago
    I wonder if you can serve directly on a different domain and put CF on the primary?
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - spurgu 6y ago
    PHP 5.4..? I'd recommend setting up WP Super Cache (which you're using now) to serve static HTML files (not sure what caching method you are using). Then you need to configure Apache (or switch to nginx) to actually look for those files, otherwise the plugin won't do much (it generates PHP files by default which are taxing on the server). Another option would be to switch to the Cache Enabler plugin (along with Apache or nginx configuration) - static HTML page caching as simple as it gets. Oh and upgrade PHP. Edit: For Cache Enabler, check suggested advanced configs at https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugi... Edit2: CF would just by default cache your CSS/JS, wouldn't really solve the issues you're experiencing (most likely heavy PHP/MySQL load due to poorly configured caching). That said I haven't looked into the site that much, might be that you have a lot of portions of the site that can't be properly cached but then again most users shouldn't need to be logged in so doubt it.
    - MartijnBraam 6y ago

hundchenkatze 6y ago

Yeah, their site has always been abysmal to use. edit: to be fair as others pointed out, it's likely that I've mainly ended up on their store after/during the hug of death from hn/reddit.

aquaticsunset 6y ago
It's not usually _this_ slow though
Shared404 6y ago
I've only ever seen it slow directly following an HN/Reddit post. It may never have been _instant_ loading, but it's always felt fairly responsive to me.

Nux 6y ago

You sure it's not just powershell?

svnpenn 6y ago
After some troubleshooting, it looks like it was actually your computer that was slowing everything down. If you could just stay off the internet forever I think it will be fine.

fireTwoOneNine 6y ago

(I guess now's a good time to actually register for HN -- we end up on here often enough...) Hi, Pine64 sysadmin here... yea, our store doesn't like the big surges of traffic we get around product launches. As I speak, we've been getting about 600 concurrent connections for the last 30 minutes, and at least 450 for the last few hours. We've done some optimization behind the scenes in anticipation, but it's clearly not enough. We're going to be doing some heavy upgrades right after these preorders close.

TheSpiciestDev 6y ago

It looks like a Wordpress site, but caching or a CDN should resolve a lot of what feels slow, right?

fireTwoOneNine 6y ago
P64 Sysadmin here: We are using heavy caching, on WP and also browser-side. It's still not enough. We previously used Cloudflare, which obviously fixes most of these problems, but people in these types of circles tend to get pissy about CF.
- lallysingh 6y ago
  I wonder if you can serve directly on a different domain and put CF on the primary?
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- spurgu 6y ago
  PHP 5.4..? I'd recommend setting up WP Super Cache (which you're using now) to serve static HTML files (not sure what caching method you are using). Then you need to configure Apache (or switch to nginx) to actually look for those files, otherwise the plugin won't do much (it generates PHP files by default which are taxing on the server). Another option would be to switch to the Cache Enabler plugin (along with Apache or nginx configuration) - static HTML page caching as simple as it gets. Oh and upgrade PHP. Edit: For Cache Enabler, check suggested advanced configs at https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugin https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugi... Edit2: CF would just by default cache your CSS/JS, wouldn't really solve the issues you're experiencing (most likely heavy PHP/MySQL load due to poorly configured caching). That said I haven't looked into the site that much, might be that you have a lot of portions of the site that can't be properly cached but then again most users shouldn't need to be logged in so doubt it.
  - MartijnBraam 6y ago