This past week I had to deal with a new concept: a client site that failed due to excessive load. Most of the week was spent optimizing the site by doing the critical components: installing APC, ensuring that our caching (Akamai) was satisfactory and properly configured, and making performance improvements.
But one thing that became very important was the benchmark test. Using ApacheBench, we identified the blind spots, weak spots, and bottlenecks in our web server (WordPress…duh) and worked to address them.
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 @ 9:56 pm |
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Categories: Web Architecture, System Architecture
Tags: benchmarking, APC, Alternative PHP Cache, Wordpress, load testing, ApacheBench