[Cialug] Wordpress Performance

[Kenneth Younger]

You are exactly right, the database is usually the first bottleneck - which
is where the object cache comes in handy.

Either way, static page caching to the filesystem will help you serve up the
pages more quickly and with fewer resources.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:

> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Eric
>
>
> On 7/19/2011 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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