Looking for Ideas - Heroku Performance, Caching?

[Ryan]

The serve gem + Heroku has been working very well for us as a way to quickly prototype, deploy and test a design with customers. But because we are on heroku, there are times when it takes a long time to load up the first screen; occasionally the request times out. This isn't ideal in that we like the prototypes to feel fast and responsive when testing with users, so even this initial load time is a little unpleasant when it does occur.

I understand that this is part of the deal with Heroku on the cheap and I'm certainly willing to accept that.  However, I am looking to improve this if possible. If you were going to implement some basic caching (if caching is even a pertinent suggestion in this scenario) or something else to address this load issue, what would you look at doing?

One consideration is that I am not exporting/deploying static files via 'serve export', but deploying the whole serve setup to heroku because we areusing cookies and query strings to conditionally display content.

Thanks!
Ryan

[Jess Brown]

Hi Ryan,

Collective Idea posting this blog not too long ago: http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2012/11/26/setup-a-high-volume-site-on-heroku-for-free/

Focus on step #2, which will lead you to heroku's new relic page.  Follow the rack instructions: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/newrelic#using-new-relic-from-a-rack-app

I haven't done this, but seems worth a try and should work.  Or basically if you can think of any other service that will hit your app at least once per hour ;-) that should do the trick.

Jess Brown
Brown Web Design

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[Ryan]

Sorry, just a quick reply to say thanks Jess!