[Catalyst] Re: Hello, Deployment of Catalyst apps in a shared web hosting account without shell

[J. Shirley]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Anton Katsarov <tony at katsarov.org> wrote:
> В 13:20 -0800 на 04.02.2009 (ср), J. Shirley написа:
>
>> It's hideously slow.  It took 16 seconds to load, and most of that was
>> the first byte.
>
> I do agree. But that is because of the statics. I did some changes to
> my .htaccess to serve the static directly from the webserver and now it
> loads for 5 seconds to me. Here are the changes:
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?(cgi-bin/test.cgi|static|root)
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/test.cgi/$1 [PT,L]
>
> RewriteRule ^/?static/(.*)$ /root/static/$1 [PT,L]
> RewriteRule ^/?root/(lib|src).*$ /404 [PT,L]
>
> That is not the best decision, but I thins now is fast enough.

If 5 seconds works for you, cool.

Just as a benchmark, all my apps send full HTML in under .8 seconds
(or I tune them until they do).  It's relatively easy to get FCGI
support and a lot of cheap hosts provide it.

Not using it is just silly.

-J