March 15, 2005
Finally, A Free PHP5 Cache That Works
I don't know why I didn't find this sooner (and I had been looking), but I finally stumbled upon a PHP cache/optimizer which is both free and is compatible with PHP 5. There are many products on the market that work with PHP 4, but not so many for PHP 5. The ones I had tried for PHP 5 still had bugs and were unusable if using certain form methods. However, eAccelerator seems to be error free and works great! My personal website is tons quicker now, and best of all, I don't notice a CPU spike when someone accesses my gallery.
As a preliminary benchmark, I deployed the extension on the USG test server. For the funding system, which is all PHP 5 and heavily object-oriented, page requests decreased from ~0.1s to 0.01-0.02s! Amazing. Now, the database is the bottlenock, which is good, because databases are fast ;-)
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