[Cialug] Wordpress Performance

[Kenneth Younger]

Look into using the plugin W3TotalCache - it has support for both APC and
Memcached object caching - it also automatically handles minimizing and
filesystem caching static pages, as well as CDN support.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> Hi, I agree, the sites are slow, the first one especially so. Maybe you're
> getting a rush from the e-mail, but I clocked them using time GET
> http://family.kulish.com/ > /tmp/output.txt
>
> And they were 7-9 seconds for tech and 5-7 seconds for family. Comparing
> that to my wordpress site, I get 0.869 seconds.
>
> I looked at your HTTP headers and I don't see any sign that you're using a
> PHP accelerator. That can boost your speed a good 7x on wordpress.
>
> On Ubuntu, and probably Debian, you can do:
>
> sudo apt-get install php5-xcache
>
> It will enable itself and restart apache for you.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:13 AM, <lister at kulish.com> wrote:
>
>> After some discussion about it on other venues, I thought I'd throw an
>> email out to the list about this.
>>
>> I'm looking to gain a bit of performance on a KVM server running
>> Wordpress.  Nothing is sacred here, I am even entertaining alternatives
>> to the standard Apache+mod_php here.
>>
>> My needs are pretty basic.  Standard LAMP stack currently.
>>
>> Named Virtual Domains
>> PHP
>>
>> All WP sites have db_cache enabled.
>>
>> http://tech.kulish.com
>> This is the problem child.  It does more backend processing for various
>> items.
>>
>> http://family.kulish.com
>> Seems to run quick enough.  You tell me :)
>>
>> http://cars.kulish.com
>> PG-13!!!  Anyway, seems to run fast enough as well.
>>
>> I also run some monitoring stuff at other virtual domains, a mediaserver
>> as well webmail.
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