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I have significantly improved our site performance in the last month. I did all the site optimization steps by the book, found a lot of new things and fine-tuned existing ideas. There are a couple of good ideas I am yet to implement like using Lighttpd server instead of Apache 2.
I am writing a detailed article on all the site optimization steps we have taken, what worked and what didn't and why. You would be surprised with the results. It should be ready in 2-3 weeks after I complete this phase of optimizations with master-master replication of MySQL databases & Lighttpd.I have a server in-waiting which we will soon use to replicate our sites.
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September 26th, 2007 at 1:45 am
lighttpd should be a breeze for you since you don’t use “pretty permalink” (urls without “index.php”)
It sucks if you want to use real clean permalinks, because there is no such things as “if file does not exist, redirect” as the generic rewrite rule in WP .htaccess
September 27th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
I do use pretty permalinks for most of my blogs, except the early ones like simple thoughts.
How did you solve it?