[WebDNA] v7 success story
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2012
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numero = 107906
interpreted = N
texte = We're using version 7 since a few weeks and I really like the product.I also like the many times discussed fcgi solution.We had performance problems in the past, heavy load on a few vhosts =brought us waiting times up to 5 seconds per page, for all vhosts, not =just the ones with heavy load, because with v6 a single webdna process =is responsible for all vhosts.=20Having the ability to split the load on many separate webdna processes =will solve this problem.=20I moved our CMS to v7, took me two days of programming, but only because =we used global databases to store informations about which CMS modules =to serve for each client, versions installed and a copy protection =system of all our CMS clients. We solved this problem with a databases =on an own vhost, all our CMS systems are exchanging informations with =this global database using CURL commands.=20So there's no more need for global databases in our case.All the other functions worked just perfect as they did before. My =concerns about incompatibility were absolutely unnecessary.(excluding the [thisurl]-tag discussed in another thread in this list)And it's even possible to serve v6 and v7 sites on the same server, just =make sure you use different suffixes for v6 and v7.Because we wanted to have .tpl for v6 and .dna for v7 and I had to make =some changes to the v6 administration.=20During the next weeks we'll move a few more sites with heavy load to v7.=20=At this point I'd like to put a big THANK YOU into this list, thank you =Chris, thank you community!This product and its further development saves our a... and it's worth a =lot more than it costs ;-)Thierry=
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We're using version 7 since a few weeks and I really like the product.I also like the many times discussed fcgi solution.We had performance problems in the past, heavy load on a few vhosts =brought us waiting times up to 5 seconds per page, for all vhosts, not =just the ones with heavy load, because with v6 a single webdna process =is responsible for all vhosts.=20Having the ability to split the load on many separate webdna processes =will solve this problem.=20I moved our CMS to v7, took me two days of programming, but only because =we used global databases to store informations about which CMS modules =to serve for each client, versions installed and a copy protection =system of all our CMS clients. We solved this problem with a databases =on an own vhost, all our CMS systems are exchanging informations with =this global database using CURL commands.=20So there's no more need for global databases in our case.All the other functions worked just perfect as they did before. My =concerns about incompatibility were absolutely unnecessary.(excluding the
[thisurl]-tag discussed in another thread in this list)And it's even possible to serve v6 and v7 sites on the same server, just =make sure you use different suffixes for v6 and v7.Because we wanted to have .tpl for v6 and .dna for v7 and I had to make =some changes to the v6 administration.=20During the next weeks we'll move a few more sites with heavy load to v7.=20=At this point I'd like to put a big THANK YOU into this list, thank you =Chris, thank you community!This product and its further development saves our a... and it's worth a =lot more than it costs ;-)Thierry=
Thierry Almy
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