WordPress performance tuning
Posted on | February 18, 2007 | 5 Comments
Arne Brachhold as a nice round-up on tuning your (self-hosted) WordPress-blog, mainly by tweaking caching on mysql-, php- & application-levels. nothing ground-breaking, but a good check-list for sure. since Arne isn’t too specific about mysql-tuning, I’ld like to recommend (for dedicated servers with lots of memory, >256mb) setting higher values for mysql-parameters query_cache_size, table_cache & key_buffer_size to keep those blogs rolling in times of high traffic (here’s a useful summary on basic mysql-tuning).
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May 29th, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
Missing 1 little piece though, you should encourage people to also implement a server-side caching scheme to send out the correct caching headers with static content such as images, javascript, css, pdfs, favicon.ico, etc..
Read about it: htaccess Caching
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May 29th, 2007 @ 11:50 pm
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December 30th, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
Outsourcing static content delivery (JS, style sheets, images, pdf’s, podcasts etc) to content delivery networks also helps a lot – lowers CPU and memory usage on your server and you will be able to serve more web visitors with the same hardware.
January 22nd, 2008 @ 11:29 am
Disable compiled modules in Apache that are not needed for your project. This will lower cpu and memory requirements.
July 8th, 2010 @ 10:14 am
wordpress != performance tuning ….
setting up some mysql parameters would not help on such bad programmed software …