Posts Tagged "performance"

• Check your server load before you process

  PHP
  

  Most of us just write applications to be deployed on a webserver without thinking about what to do when the server becomes overloaded. What happens in most cases is that the application would go trying to run itself on every request, and on a heavily loaded system, it just goes on the aggravate the problem, [...]

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• Move your .htaccess directives to httpd.conf

  Linux
  

  Last week I was searching the net for a program or application to  move some of our .htaccess directives into Apache’s configuration files. The reason I was looking for this is to improve the performance of the site. When we have directives in the .htaccess file, the performance hit on Apache on when it serves [...]

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• Rules for High Performance Websites

  Techniques
  Here’s an excellent article on Yahoo on how to speed up your website.  The points covered in this are: Make Fewer HTTP Requests Use a Content Delivery Network Add an Expires Header Gzip Components Put Stylesheets at the Top Put Scripts at the Bottom Avoid CSS Expressions Make JavaScript and CSS External Reduce DNS Lookups [...]

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• Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL (Video)

  Databases
  This video is from one of Google’s Techtalk sessions by Jay Pipes ABSTRACT Learn where to best focus your attention when tuning the performance of your applications and database servers, and how to effectively find the “low hanging fruit” on the tree of bottlenecks. It’s not rocket science, but with a bit of acquired skill [...]

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