There are many things you can do to optimize speed on a website. First of all you need to determine how many concurrent users you can handle on the server you are hosting the website on. You have to take the following into consideration: CPU, Memory, Disks, Network etc. You can gain relatively much performance let's say if you have much disk I/O activity if you switch from IDE to SCSI disks.
Let's say you can handle 1500 concurrent users on this server you are running the site on but in fact there are 3000 users trying to access the site at the same time, the requests will then be queued and the site will be experienced as very slow. What you can do here is to add another server and loadbalance the load between the two servers or you can setup a web cache in front of the server to take the initial requests. Also the Internet capacity plays a big part in the overall site performance. You should have a bit more bandwith capacity that your users will use because of the overload in the TCP/IP communication. I hope this can give you a direction in the right way. Nicke -----Original Message----- From: Vinayakam Murugan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 5 augusti 2004 12:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Optimizing Tips Hello I am a fresh PHP programmer and am part of a team developing a LAMP based website. The problem we are facing is that when the site was hosted on a local server, it was quite fast. Now that we have to use the internet to get to it, it has become very slow even keeping in mind considerations like connection speed . Any pointers on what & how optimizations can be done? -- Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayakam Murugan Tel: 91-22 - 2288 2163 Ext 121 Help Desk: 91-22 - 2288 2774 Fax Number: 91-22 - 2288 2809 Mobile : 022-31018082 http://www.TheArgonCompany.com Viruses getting you down? Get your virus protected mailbox at http://www.tassm.com Linux. The Choice of the GNU generation -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
