Archive for the ‘HTTP accelerators’ Category

  • Optimize and Tweak High-Traffic Servers

    Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

    Summary If you are reaching the limits of your server running Apache serving a lot of dynamic content, you can either spend thousands on new equipment or reduce bloat to increase your server capacity by anywhere from 2 to 10 times. This article concentrates on important and poorly-documented ways of increasing capacity without additional hardware. [...]

  • Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together

    Monday, June 28th, 2010

    The primero recommendation for speeding up a website is almost always to add cache and more cache. And after that add a little more cache just in case. Memcached is almost always given as the recommended cache to use. What is Memcached? Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by [...]

  • Turck MMCache for PHP

    Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

    Introduction: Turck MMCache is a free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache for PHP. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. We sho Turck MMCache is a free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic [...]

  • How to install mod_gzip

    Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

    Introduction:- I recently needed to speed up the load time of one of my websites, Ramprage.com – a popular sports website, while I didn’t want to change the content itself I could change how fast it was delivered with mod_gzip. This tutorial features dynamic integration of mod_gzip with Apache, no recompile necessary. mod_gzip is an Internet [...]

  • Memcached with php

    Saturday, April 17th, 2010

    Introduction: memcached (pronunciation: mem-cash-dee) is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source [...]

  • Load balancing with Varnish

    Sunday, April 11th, 2010

    Introduction:- Varnish has a built in load balancer. Use this if you have more then one origin server. Using this is quite easy. You start up by declaring more then one backend server. We add a probe object to each backend to let varnish check the health of the objects. {{{ backend foo {   [...]