[phpa] Re: Cached 'static' PHP vs HTML

My suggestion is K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid)

I'm creating static versions of the most requested PHP documents on one of the 
websites I'm responsible for (around 800K - 1 million hits pr. day on the PHP 
box that serves only PHP and static HTML).

What I do is create simple shell scripts that do nothing but run the PHP 
binary, and direct the output into an HTML document.  Then I set up tasks via 
CRON, that repeat the process every 1 - 15 minutes.  It saves up a h*ll of a 
lot of CPU cycles, db queries and reduces the workload even more dramatically 
than just by running PHPA.

By running the CRON job every minute, I make sure that I've always got 
a "fresh" copy of the document (I'm speeding up the index page of a 
messageboard 200 times [expensive joins and queries in mysql]). 

The combination of those "static" copies of the PHP documents, and PHPA has 
reduced the workload of my webserver down to zero.  

There isn't any one-stop-shop solution or a magic recipe to a fast website.

If you really want to tune your website, then you'll have to analyze each and 
every document, and every component of your website. 

Just my $0.02

Kind regards,

Egill R.
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