Feb 22

Apache/PHP Performance - Or lack thereof!

I’ve spent a good amount of time messing with Apache today, trying to tweak performance out of it. After attempting to run Apache Benchmark against this WordPress install (both remote and local), I noticed I was topping out at 13-14 requests per second.
Strangeness, indeed.
I spent about 15 minutes messing around before I discovered that all [...]


Feb 21

PHP parsing and content-type issues

Earlier today I flipped from using suPHP/PHP-CGI to using the Apache SAPI Module for performance purposes. An odd thing occured which I had never seen before.
Immediately after switching back to the SAPI module - a quick config change - I refreshed the page in FireFox and Internet Explorer to verify that the page was still [...]