<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Eric Junker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@eric.nu">eric@eric.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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>
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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>
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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.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why wouldn't you use an opcode cache? It costs nothing and the performance improvements can be huge. </div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin and twitter<br>
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