[sudo-sys] calendar plugin

[Matthew Meier]

APC is installed already, i used it to improve performance int he wiki.

-Wolfy

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, the http://time.ly/ plugin (as they've recently turned it into a
> "freemium" plugin) is no longer desirable IMHO. Luckily, we have everything
> under the http://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/ URL, so we can just make a hard
> rewrite to the calendar http://sudoroom.org/calendar and start fresh with a
> new plugin. However, we want to make sure the .ics feed still works, so we
> need a replacement with an .ics export feature that will allow us to
> continue syndicating events. Any recommendations?
>
> There's a varnish plugin
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-varnish/
>
> but we could also run memcache with batcache
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/batcache/
>
> either way we can do better php caching with this
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:57 PM, William Budington <bill at inputoutput.io>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey, I just wanted to bring this to your collective attention:
>>
>> The calendar plugin we have on the wordpress site currently is pretty
>> terrible.  It's the one we have on the Occupy Oakland site, and it
>> brought the site to a grinding halt.  This had to do with the way the
>> plugin generated its MySQL queries, which was pretty labyrinthine.  If
>> my memory serves me, Mark Burdett rewrote part of the plugin to optimize
>> indices on the table storing events.  We might want to have a look at
>> that before this becomes a problem.
>>
>> I've also installed varnish on the server, and I'll be looking into a
>> good way to cache these pages and serve them from memory so we don't
>> have Apache/PHP hitting the disk and generating the page every time.
>> I've done something similar for other wordpress installs, including ones
>> being actively DDOSed, and it helped enormously.
>>
>> Bill
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