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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is at least one wordpress cache plugin that would probably make a big difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-Nate</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br><br><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matthew Nuzum<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cialug] Wordpress Performance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Eric Junker <<a href="mailto:eric@eric.nu">eric@eric.nu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I think people are missing the point here. Given that this is your personal site and I assume you aren't getting lots of hits, you shouldn't need memcached or a PHP opcode cache to make your site faster than it is now. How much CPU/memory is allocated to the server?<br><br>With most web apps the database is the bottleneck. Have you determined if there is a specific query that is taking a long time? Are the queries using the correct indexes?<br><br>Is WordPress the only thing that is slow or are other PHP/MySQL apps also slow? You could create a simple PHP script that does a few database queries and see how that performs.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Why wouldn't you use an opcode cache? It costs nothing and the performance improvements can be huge. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin and twitter<o:p></o:p></p><p>♫ You're never fully dressed without a smile! ♫<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>