collectstatic against S3 is super slow

[btbonval]

Maybe this would help:
https://github.com/AGoodId/django-s3-collectstatic

[charlesconnell]

That does look helpful. Let's see if we can upload gzipped version of our static files as well, this could improve page load time.

[btbonval]

Not a bad idea. S3 or CloudFront might have something like that built into its static hosting already, we should check to see if we can check a button before doing any real work.

[charlesconnell]

It takes maybe 1 minute on Heroku. This isn't so bad. Could we close this ticket?

[btbonval]

We can close this for now. If the dokku VM has a problem with static stuff, we can always create a new ticket.

[btbonval]

Reopening this ticket. Static collection to S3 takes a number of minutes to complete whether running collection locally or when pushing to Heroku. Communication with S3 an obvious bottleneck in the deploy process.