Category Archives: faster-wordpress

PHP Caching and Acceleration with XCache

Up until today, I was still using eAccelerator on all of my servers. However, a post on the vBulletin.com forums prompted me to give XCache, the new PHP accelerator from the maker of lighttpd, a try. I’ve got to say, while I’ve only been using it for about 6 hours at this point, it blows eAccelerator out of the water, especially once you enable multiple caches (which benefits SMP systems).

Latest OSTU Lectures

Latest OSTU Lectures

Quickstart Guide for IPERF (by Tony Fortunato)
Packet Capturing with Tshark (by Sake Blok)
Quickstart Guide for MRTG (by Tony Fortunato)
Quickstart Guide for Wireshark (by Tony Fortunato)
Tutorial on SmokePing & Cacti (by Mike Pennacchi)

Speed up your web pages with YSlow

Speed up your web pages with YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you: