I feel like we're going to sail off into old/new user debate territory. "It's been done before" / "I'm new and so it's novel to me" etc etc.
I'm not sure what to tell you, except I fall squarely on the "old" side of that divide, having had to nurse Wordpress installations for nigh on 10 years now.
But every time -- every time -- an uncached Wordpress blog is linked to and dies with the famously unhelpful "Error establishing a database connection", somebody pops up to mention WP Supercache and/or W3 Total Cache.
Actually, if I have a pet peeve, it's that non-terrible caching isn't part of the Wordpress core. Probably breaks on gawdawfulhost.com or something, god forbid that 99.999% of the internet be better off from core architectural improvements when we could be working on the fifteenth new admin redesign!!1!
Edit: I realise now that you weren't talking about Wordpress and thus, my own pet obsession is clearly revealed.
Fair enough. I think we are all sick of hearing about WP Supercache.
My post was about middleman + s3 + cloudfront, however. I think this combination of tools isn't as well known and some people could benefit from knowing about them.
In my opinion (given my superficial understanding of the prior situation), your problem was Apache + mod_php. The default settings for that combination are to chew memory until the bad people go away.
Out of curiousity, why middleman when you're already using Jekyll/Octopress?
(My dog in the static site generator fight is Nanoc, fwiw).
My main site, AppRaptor, isn't on octopress. Just this blog. I agree with you 100% that the problem was apache + mod_php. Nginx would have probably been better. I decided to try out this s3 + cloudfront solution instead, though. I'll take a look at nanoc. Thanks for the info.
I'm not sure what to tell you, except I fall squarely on the "old" side of that divide, having had to nurse Wordpress installations for nigh on 10 years now.
But every time -- every time -- an uncached Wordpress blog is linked to and dies with the famously unhelpful "Error establishing a database connection", somebody pops up to mention WP Supercache and/or W3 Total Cache.
Actually, if I have a pet peeve, it's that non-terrible caching isn't part of the Wordpress core. Probably breaks on gawdawfulhost.com or something, god forbid that 99.999% of the internet be better off from core architectural improvements when we could be working on the fifteenth new admin redesign!!1!
Edit: I realise now that you weren't talking about Wordpress and thus, my own pet obsession is clearly revealed.