Improving Web Application Performance

As a conclusion to this chapter, I want to mention several performance-related techniques to be used with Web applications. The busier a site is, the more important each little tweak will become.

The performance of your Web applications is dictated by many things, generally

  • The physical server itself

  • The PHP scripts

  • MySQL and SQL

Tips

  • The most obvious and expensive way to improve the performance of your Web applications is to upgrade the server itself: processor speed, memory, hard drives (type, speed, size, etc.), connection to the Internet, and so forth.

  • Another way to improve the speed of your Web applications is to tune how MySQL runs. You can do this by specifying different options, such as the key_buffer ...

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