Comments on: How to Speed up Your Django Sites with NginX, Memcached, and django-compress

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By: tjenarvi

tjenarvi — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:53:35 +0000

Hi there,

I don't quite understand here.
Will the django will automatically read the nginx "location /files" ???

Because I got a problem that it couldn't find the url in the urls.py when I tried to open http://localhost/media

Please help me out, Thanks a million !

By: Greg Allard

Greg Allard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:44:24 +0000

I just installed django-memcache-status to see the usage of memcache in the django admin interface. It looks pretty good and it's easy to install. Just download it and add it to installed apps. http://github.com/bartTC/django-memcache-status/

By: Greg Allard

Greg Allard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:33:22 +0000

Yeah amazon's content distribution network is awesome and not a bad price. I'd like to hook that up sometime soon. I didn't know that subdomains would help with the browser limit. That's a good idea.

By: Tim Rosenblatt

Tim Rosenblatt — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:05:05 +0000

Great post, even for us non-Djangoers.

One other tip on the serving-static-files thing: move them off your server entirely and don't even use the processing power. Store them on S3. From there, you can use the CDN and map multiple subdomains to the content, so you can spread your requests across multiple subdomains.

The reason for this is that web browsers will not open more than N connections to a given domain. Mapping them across multiple subdomains means that an image/static-heavy page will open even more connections and load concurrently.

By: Greg Allard

Greg Allard — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:42:17 +0000

Thanks. I've never been to tutlist before. Sounds like a good idea.

By: JDStraughan

JDStraughan — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:37:21 +0000

Added to http://tutlist.com

Great tutorial.

By: Greg Allard

Greg Allard — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:42:59 +0000

I haven't gotten into caching and increasing performance of my application code itself; I was starting with the server. Thanks for the suggestion. When I do get around to speeding up slow parts of my code, I'll keep Beaker in mind.

By: bbangert

bbangert — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:36:36 +0000

Have you taken a look at Beaker? You can cache slow functionsthen, so that only parts of a request are cached as needed. It's easier to use with django now as well, I just blogged about it's use as a library on groovie.org

By: Greg Allard

Greg Allard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:08:08 +0000

There are two more django apps that could help reduce http requests. I didn't find these until after posting this. http://code.google.com/p/django-sprites/ and http://github.com/rnk/django-media-bundler/tree... will help create image sprites so that your css background images are all one file request. CSS sprites are explained in more detail here http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites