TTIW Development Blog

war stories..

We had a couple of rough weeks here at TTIW since site usage increases a lot at this time of the year. The fact that we were metioned in a very nice article by CNN.com, and that there is a lot more pages in this new version for spiders to index also added to site usage. Well, what happened was basically that we run into some trouble accomodating all of the new visits and all the extra activity so we had to do a lot of tunings on the server and on the scripts to handle this:

  • Tuned OS, Apache, Mysql and Php resources usage and changed the rotation of logs(to acomodate a faster rate of rotation).
  • Optimized a bunch of sql queries that were slowing down the site.
  • Did a couple of extra configurations on Apache

There is still some stuff that needs to be done tomorrow morning and we will officially move to version 3.4.3

Permalink 2006-12-02 17:56:12 English (US)

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I would like the site not to show me what items have been reserved by other people. It kinda ruins the surprise! If I update the list or do any maintenance on it, like going back to choose a size or different color, I see the " reserved" sign. It would be great if only the people actually shopping off the list could see that.
Comment from: mikestevens 2006-12-16 @ 16:55
Hi mike, you can have that option if you choose to create a birthday or a christmas list on the create new list feature. Right now only lists of that type allow for not showing which items have been reserved to the user of the list up to the ocassion date (When all reservations are shown).
We are currently working on having this option on all types of list (this will come on version 3.5) but we still have to do some stuff to this version first, so it will come in a couple of months. In the meantime you can use the different types of list for this.
Comment from: Emiliano 2006-12-20 @ 15:38

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