Revisiting Faster PHP Sessions
> "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." Edsger W. Dijkstra As our experience grows, we learn from past mistakes and discover what's truely important in relia...
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Enhance PHP Session Management
In PHP, sessions can keep track of authenticated in users. They are an essential building block in today's websites with big communities and a lot of user activity. Without session...
Better Performance With mod_deflate
I used to use Dean Edwards Javascript Packer a lot to compress my Javascript sources. Libraries of 100kB could easily shrink to 30kB and that saves load times & bandwidth. A go...
Survive Heavy Traffic With Your Webserver
Recently two of my articles reached the Digg frontpage at the same day. My web server isn't state of the art and it had to handle gigantic amounts of traffic. But still it served p...
Create Turbocharged Storage Using tmpfs
Everyone knows that RAM is so much faster than a hard disk. To illustrate, while a current SATA disk has peak transfer rates of 375 MB/s, current RAM can do a mind blowing 12,500 M...
Install Squid & Apache on 1 Server
Let's say your site is becoming a big success and as a result it's becoming slower and slower. There are several things you do without buying additional hardware: