[Cialug] Wordpress Performance

[Matthew Nuzum]

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.
>
>
Why wouldn't you use an opcode cache? It costs nothing and the performance
improvements can be huge.


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