Pause on marketing, back to coding again
The good news is that page views and active members have continued to rocket but it’s hitting the server again. We briefly ran out of resources this afternoon and I’ve made some tweaks so I think that we should be okay until Christmas.
I really don’t want to give up on the software optimisation and just starting buying servers, so for now I’m going to park the marketing work and get back to improving the code. Currently I’m just under 8 million page views a month, I would like to get to at least 31 million page views a month on this single server. Given the results of my cache experiments I have no doubt that this is achievable.
In addition to performance there is beginning to be quite a list of other tasks that really need to be completed. There’s a lot of security improvements (such as steganography for uploaded photos), more linking between the profiles for SEO and the chatroom could use some work.
I think that this will probably be a couple of weeks work but given my schedule it will probably end up taking a month.