This post is designed to inspire our beloved server administrator to get some sort of caching installed.<\/i><\/p>\n
So I finally decided that enough was enough and I wasn’t going to wait until I spontaneously combusted with the motivation to build my own blogging\/CMS system and finish my site. Last night I downloaded WordPress and began hacking my design into their template framework.<\/p>\n
While testing it all out, I noticed that the responses seemed pretty slow. I wasn’t sure if it was the wireless network (I’d been wrangling with it a few hours earlier), so this evening I decided to do some benchmarking. I am something of a performance freak, after all. (So I lied about my intentions at the beginning of the post… who cares?) I’d already looked at some of the code (quite hideous, in my personal opinion), so I had a feeling things wouldn’t be pretty out of the box.<\/p>\n
I was right: the default installation managed a measly 4 requests per second. First I installed APC, which, under Ubuntu, requires installing the PEAR and php5-dev packages, then running sudo pecl install apc<\/code>. The addition of byte-code caching pushed it up to 13 requests\/second. Clearly, the code was suffering from runtime — not compilation — issues.<\/p>\n