In my last post, I mentioned a few easy ways to speed up and increase the performance of your WordPress blog. If you applied the tip about Gzip, one additional benefit besides reducing load time, is that it will also reduce your bandwidth usage to some degree. Also, the Gzip with php tip can be applied to any php script and not just WordPress Blogs. Hopefully, if you downloaded the browser add-on for FireFox called Yslow, you were able to determine other possible issues that might be slowing your Word Press blog down. Yslow is a good overall tool, and like the Gzip tip, Yslow can obviously be used to analyze any website you wish.
My final tip is a bit more advanced. Being able to apply the following speed tweak for your WordPress blog will depend on what type of hosting account you are currently using and what hosting company and platform your running. If your on just a shared hosting account, you probably won’t be able to use this performance tip. If you feel that your at a stage where your blog really needs this performance increase, then you may want to upgrade your current hosting plan from a shared hosting account to either a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or a dedicated server. Just being on a VPS or dedicated server alone should obviously increase the speed at which your blog and other sites run, but with the following tip, your sites will load significantly faster. I guess it really boils down to how much traffic your expecting on your blogs and if you are truly ready to take that leap.
If you move up to a VPS or dedicated server and are not comfortable with compiling and installing files in a Linux server environment, you may want to contact the support department of your current hosting provider to see if they can do this for you. If they can’t, it may be time to find a different hosting provider. If you want to check out the Hosting Company that I’ve been using for about 2 years, go here: Web Hosting I can’t say enough good things about them… they have practically bent over backwards for me anytime I need help with my websites… even the really advanced stuff. Now for the Advanced tip…
Rather than rewrite all of the info for this advanced tip that I use, I’m simply going to post the link to the resource where I stumbled across this WordPress Plugin. Basically, there is a plugin for WordPress that works in conjunction with Eaccelerator. Since I was already using eAccelerator on some of my other sites, installing this plugin was a breeze. If your have never heard of eAccelerator:
“eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.”
For more info on eAccelerator and to download the eAccelerator plugin for WordPress go HERE
Like I said, it’s a bit more advanced, but I use it and really notice the difference. This will probably be my last post on technical type stuff, since I’m really intending on this blog being more focused on Social Networking, Social Media, and Web 2.0.
Important Note: I’ve got some finishing touches to do this weekend on the internet marketing social networking site I’ve been working on for about a year or 2 now. The next post will offer up a sneak preview and I’ll be looking for a few beta testers from the internet marketing community to give it a spin. I’l be posting all the details in the next few weeks. Till then…
Understand little better what you are doing. Hope it works out !Grand Pa
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