Re: Finding a balance between caching and stat tracking

[Jonathan Vanasco <suppressed>]

my suggestion would be this:

  use a lightweight proxy on port 80.  i like nginx.
  have the proxy handle as much stat tracking as possible -- write  
to a logfile something like "%{cookieID}\t%{request_arg}\t% 
{trackedData}"
  then just batch that overnight.

if you do that for static pages, you can kill a GIANT amount of  
traffic directed at mod_perl, and still have your tracking

personally, i've pretty much given up on caching non-binary content.
nearly every page i serve now is dynamic : everything needs a login  
box , or a 'hello' box.  i heavily cache objects to  generate pages  
with, but i've seen a rapid decrease in cache-able items .


// Jonathan Vanasco

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