Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/19/07 08:04

cbmeeks wrote:

> Works great. However, it's very demanding and it simply can't serve
> the data as quickly as a static image in a browsable location.

Don't worry about performance too much until it actually becomes a real
problem -- Google for "premature optimisation".

One way you might be able to speed up your site is eAccelerator, which
keeps compiled versions of your PHP scripts in a RAM (or disk) cache,
which tends to speed up most websites fairly significantly (20%+).

Also, if you're performing SQL queries to check access rights, look at
optimising them -- make sure you're not fetching data that you don't need
("SELECT * FROM" is a sign that you might be doing that).

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