Console Login

#PHP Performance

All articles tagged with PHP Performance

#PHP Performance

Redis vs. Memcached: Why Persistent Session Storage Matters for High-Load PHP Apps

Stop letting disk I/O bottlenecks and session locking kill your application's concurrency. We explore why switching from file-based sessions to Redis 1.2 is the critical upgrade for serious deployments in 2010.

Why Shared Hosting is Suffocating Your PHP Apps (And How to Scale in 2009)

Stop battling 'noisy neighbors' and Apache overhead. Learn how to optimize PHP 5.3, tune MySQL buffers, and leverage Xen virtualization for low-latency performance in Norway.

Stop Thrashing Your Disk: Why We Switched PHP Sessions to Redis (And You Should Too)

Disk-based session handling is the silent killer of high-traffic PHP applications. Here is why the new Redis project beats Memcached for session storage, and how to implement it on CoolVDS.

Stop Killing Your I/O: Why Smart Sysadmins Are Moving PHP Sessions to Redis

File-based sessions are a concurrency bottleneck. We analyze why the emerging Redis project is superior to Memcached for session handling on high-load LEMP stacks.

Redis for Session Management: Why Disk I/O is Killing Your PHP App

Still storing sessions in /tmp? You're bottlenecking your application. We explore why the new 'Redis' project is the persistent, high-speed alternative to Memcached that European systems architects have been waiting for.

Scaling Past the Bottleneck: Why We Moved PHP Sessions from Disk to Redis

Is your site stalling under load? It might be disk I/O on /tmp. We explore replacing file-based sessions with the emerging Redis key-value store to slash latency.

Stop Using File-Based Sessions: Why Redis is the Future of High-Performance PHP

Is your disk I/O choking on session files? Learn why file-based session management is obsolete and how the new Redis project offers a persistent, sub-millisecond alternative for high-load applications.