American Patriot Getaways

Improving Site Performance

American Patriot Getaways had a unique situation. Due to the large increase in both internet traffic and online reservations being taken their i-series model 270 was working at 100% CPU utilization nearly 24 hours a day. Much of the load came from hosting the American Patriot Getaways web site, which created most of its pages dynamically with a product named LANSA. With such a taxing load, response time on the i-series was slow. After an analysis performed by engineers at tssiglobal.com the decision was made to make certain dynamic pages created by LANSA static pages instead because serving a static page would take far less processor resources than creating a dynamic page. Therefore, for the American Patriot Getaways web site, the pages containing details about the properties, as well as the pages containing virtual tours of the properties, were made static instead of dynamic. The uniqueness was the ability to use the LANSA product to still automate update to the web site when information changed about any one certain property without the need to run any generation routine. It was all hidden to the person maintaining the database details. Once the change was made, the load on the i-series dropped by an incredible 40%.