[wp-hackers] 5 minutes to a faster blog

[Viper007Bond]

You can't enable the internal caching on Dreamhost? ;)

Then again, while you may be able to, dunno if it's the best idea in a
shared environment. Especially one that's not so much of a "dream".
:rolleyes:

On 12/1/06, Doug Stewart <zamoose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/1/06, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> >
> > With the following I regularly get sub 100 millisecond front-page
> > generation time on photomatt.net, and lower on WP Pages. No caching
> > plugins, no alternative front-ends that make me rewrite my themes and
> > plugins, just plain WordPress.
> >
> > 1. Use APC:
> >
> > http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
> >
> > APC can give you a 3x speedup in load times, instantly.
> >
> > Tip: If you're on Litespeed, use this to save memory:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed_wiki:php:opcode_cache
> >
> > (APC is bundled with Litespeed, btw.)
> >
> > 2. Enable the query cache:
> >
> > nano /etc/my.cnf
> >
> > [mysqld]
> > ...
> > query_cache_size = 64M
> >
> > /etc/init.d/mysql restart
> >
> > This usually cuts in half most SQL times on busy sites, if not more.
> >
> > 3. Swich your tables to InnoDB
> >
> > Use phpMyAdmin > table > Operations to switch.
> >
> > And add the following in your MySQL config file, adjust sizes as
> > necessary for your memory:
> >
> > # Make buffer_pool larger than the size of your DB, if possible
> > innodb_buffer_pool_size=512M
> > innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=20M
> > innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0
> > innodb_log_buffer_size=8M
> >
> > Restart MySQL.
> >
> > 4. Enable WP's built-in caching
> >
> > define( 'ENABLE_CACHE', true ); // in wp-config.php
> >
> > Unless you have slow HDs, like a NFS-based host like Dreamhost.
> >
> > == More than 5 minutes, bonus ==
> >
> > 5. Use WP 2.1
> >
> > It's way faster.
>
>
>
> Not to denigrate these tips, but you should have titled that "5 minutes to
> a
> faster SELF-HOSTED blog".  Last I checked, Dreamhost won't let me
> implement
> ANY of the suggestions made above.
>
> So maybe we need another set of tips for hosted sites...
>
>
>
> --
> -Doug
>
> http://literalbarrage.org/blog/
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