Using FastCGI with Nginx for Performance on a VM Rumi, November 11, 2012November 11, 2012 This weekend I decided to play around with the configuration on my Rackspace Cloud Server. Since our various websites have been doing well lately, the relatively low-powered machine I am running on is starting to fill up its available RAM. So far so good but as everyone quickly learns –… Continue Reading
PHP accelerator Rumi, November 11, 2012 Even though compilation is very fast, it still has a resource and time cost, especially on high-traffic servers. We can improve our response times by more than 5x by pre-caching our compiled opcode for direct execution later. There are a few PHP accelerators which accomplish this for us: Xcache Xcache… Continue Reading