WordPress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott C. Back
Pretty good run-down on performance improvements to be made to WordPress sites/servers.
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scaling drupal – an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin
scaling drupal – an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin
Great notes on some common scaling arrangements for web apps (focussed on Drupal, but applicable to other architectures).
XCache and eAccelerator WP Plugins Updated at The NeoSmart Files
XCache and eAccelerator WP Plugins Updated at The NeoSmart Files
WordPress plugin to tie WP into XCache and eAccelerator (opcode caches) for much better performance.
WordPress Optimization « WordPress Codex
WordPress Optimization « WordPress Codex
All sorts of tips and approaches on optimizing WP for high-traffic sites etc.
CSS Sprite Generator at Website Performance
CSS Sprite Generator at Website Performance
An online tool that takes a series of images used in CSS and stitches them together into a single sprite so you can use the offset method.
Varnish
Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator.
ab – Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool – Apache HTTP Server
ab – Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool – Apache HTTP Server
Man page on “ab”, the Apache benchmarking tool.
High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
Great site with all sorts of info, reviews and analyses on scalable architectures etc.
High Performance WordPress » SlideShare
High Performance WordPress » SlideShare
Barry’s presentation from WordCamp 2007, which covers how to scale WordPress for lots of users.
developerWorks : Web development : Technical library view
developerWorks : Web development : Technical library view
Awesome collection of developer-oriented articles from IBM developerWorks specifically about web development. All sorts of good AJAX, PHP, MySQL etc etc articles.