[Cialug] Wordpress Performance

[lister at kulish.com]

I think this may have just answered my question I sent to Daniel.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:40:45 -0500, Kenneth Younger wrote:
> 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  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/ [6] > /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, 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 [1]
>>> This is the problem child.  It does more backend processing for
>>> various items.
>>>
>>> http://family.kulish.com [2]
>>> Seems to run quick enough.  You tell me :)
>>>
>>> http://cars.kulish.com [3]
>>> 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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