Tag: fastcgi
FastCGI results
by BenV on Jan.12, 2010, under Software
A few weeks ago I implemented a FastCGI setup for a magento website. (details Here). That site also runs google analytics.
Here’s what analytics had to show about the speed of the site:
FastCGI speedup graph
Can you guess when FastCGI was enabled?
For those of you who are graphically challenged, the above graph shows a loading time of 2.1-2.5 seconds on the left and then crashes down to only 1.0-1.3 seconds at the date that I enabled FastCGI. Neat huh?
Google analytics also notes that “this site is faster than 83% of the sites”, whatever that means. Oh well, we’re happy.
Apache 2.2 and PHP configuration fun on Slackware 13
by BenV on Dec.28, 2009, under Software
As I love to tinker around with apache/php installations to get them to work as fast as possible while still keeping some security in tact, I found myself messing around with FastCGI today. But why?! Here’s why:
On this machine I previously installed suPhP to get php scripts to run as a normal unix user instead of user apache (so users have the ability to completely lock out their database settings etc for other users on that machine). However, to speed stuff up on a magento webshop I wanted to have a PHP opcode cache running (I tried out APC). (continue reading…)
