Ran a few more tests and have some conclusive results… This time we’re going to see the difference between my original database (that had external access enabled) and migration to a new database (that has external access disabled). Experiment conditions – A random URL fetched every 5 minutes from a pool of 27 URLs. Only …
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Optiming wordpress with WP-Cache
In the last entry, I was fretting over lousy database performance adversely affecting wordpress. Since then I had a chance to install WP-Super-Cache and evaluate the effects. I’m operating it in “half cache” mode at the moment, and may try operating it in full cache mode later. This benchmark ran for approximately 8 hours and …
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This site is in part a great big experiment to see if I want to a) change all of my hosting over to godaddy and b) use wordpress as a publishing platform. My initial impressions were good as wordpress seems like a usable platform. I was able to port many of the pages from my …
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