Riding out the Storm
Posted by ibukun on February 25th, 2009Premature optimization, they say, is the root of all evil.
When server load started to increase unexpectedly a few months ago and response times began to be unreasonable, I responded by doing aggressive optimization. MySQL query caches, Apache MPM tuning, PHP accelerators from Memcache to eAccelerator to APC, and every little trick I could find under [...]