Articles tagged ‘page speed’ include those tackling back-end server performance as well as front-end performance.
Whatever you might think of Internet Explorer, unless you want IE users to experience extra-slow browsing on OS X-hosted websites — and unless you’re happy with those users placing unnecessary extra load on OS X Server — there’s an important change that needs to be made to Apple’s default Apache configuration.
Possibly the single biggest boost to PHP performance comes from caching bytecode in RAM and reusing it, rather than recompiling it from scratch each time a particular piece of code runs. Installing APC is one of the easiest ways to make it happen.
OS X Server is perfectly capable of hosting multiple websites just fine in its defautl configuration. However, a few minutes spent tuning and tweaking can pay off handsomely, unlocking far more of the hardware’s high performance potential.
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