Optimizing Textpattern for Performance

653 days ago
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Textpattern, out of the box, is a very fast CMS. In fact, when comparing it to other content management systems, it wins hands down in most cases. Even given this great out of the box performance, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to serve pages even faster? I decided to see just want tweaks would speed up Textpattern, and what wouldn’t. Read on to see what I tried and how it affected the number of pages served.


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Serving Cached Data For Improved Performance

672 days ago
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Over the past day I've been going through a few web applications and preparing them in the event they get digged or slashdotted. One of my primary goals was to cache as much data to disk, rather than hitting the database for it each time. Now, most of the web applications I have written myself, so I didn't have the luxury of some type of premade mod or plugin. In one case, this textpattern installation, I did have that luxury.


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