Run WordPress at Top Fast Speed by Putting Objects and Variables into XCache or eAccelerator Cache Memory (Plugin)
Feel that WordPress blog runs very slow? On a popular weblog powered by WordPress, slow is almost inevitable due to the nature of WordPress which is PHP scripts and dynamically generate each and every web page that served to visitors. There are plenty of overhead that consumes large amount of system resources, considering Apache web server needs to access, read, interpret and compile the PHP codes, and then retrieve the necessary data to built the webpage from MySQL database server before sending the HTTP response in HTML, comparing with just serving of HTML in static website.
A lot of workarounds and suggestions have been suggested to improve the performance of server that runs WordPress so that web page can be browsed faster. One of the popular plugin for this purpose is WP-Cache 2, a page caching system that caches WordPress pages in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file. However, some users may not able to use this approach due to hosting limitations, or requires certain dynamic components to be ran and triggers on runtime. WP-Cache will make all dynamic contents to be static, which mean it just triggers once on page creation and everything else is from the cache.
Thus some webmasters resort to PHP accelerator or opcode cacher such as eAccelerator, APC, XCache, Turck MMcache, Memcached, Zend Optimizer, Zend Platform and ionCube PHPA. PHP accelerator engine caches the compiled bytecode form of PHP scripts in memory to avoid the overhead while parsing and compiling source code on every page request.
By default, PHP accelerator or pcode caching engine caches only PHP code scripts. And it works well to speed up the overall performance of web server and your website, yet allow dynamic contents such as statistics tracker or site counters to run perfectly. But programmers from NeoSmart does not stop here. They have developed and released 2 plug-ins for WordPress that integrates the actual code the server runs with opcode caching engine of XCache or eAccelerator. In other word, not only PHP scripts are cached in memory, but also WordPress objects and variables are stored in ultra-fast memory too. If you ever turn on ENABLE_CACHE to yes in wp-config.php, you can treat the plugin job is to move the built-in WordPress object caching system cache files from stored at disk at wp-content/cache/ directory to memory.
The WordPress plugins are currently only available for XCache and eAccelerator. Download XCache for WordPress from here or eAccelerator for WordPress from here.
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October 8th, 2009 15:11
nice example it very helpful..thanks!
August 15th, 2009 20:08
Very nice concept! Going to try this out
July 31st, 2009 03:55
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July 28th, 2009 04:41
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July 19th, 2009 14:30
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May 20th, 2009 09:45
The tips are wonderful and will be useful for all those who can make modifications to their server configurations, means if we are on shared hosting where no such accelerators are available, it would be tough.
Try the file system based object cache for wordpress.
December 31st, 2008 21:12
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August 14th, 2008 14:56
Added to my download list.
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December 3rd, 2007 12:36
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