[Cialug] Wordpress Performance

[Nathan C. Smith]

There is at least one wordpress cache plugin that would probably make a big difference.

-Nate



From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:06 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wordpress Performance

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


--
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin and twitter

♫ You're never fully dressed without a smile! ♫

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20110719/4ff16fb5/attachment.html>