Re: AW: [PHP] Save output from php - apache to disk?

Sebastian Stadtlich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Use apaches mod_rewrite to make the url look static, look at > > www.apache.org for the docs on that. > > Then use wget and save all the pages down to disk from the webserver. > > am i missing something here or is that a perfect way to speed up a > site that is entirely generated from sql though php and templates? > has anyone used it for that purpose and can talk about performance? > > Sebastian > There can be a dramatic increase in speed - it's not limited to php/apache. The concept of publishing dynamic info to static files to be served up is a good one, if used in the right places. One project at a place I was many moons ago saw a speed up of around 400% by publishing their index.html page every few minutes to an hour, instead of it being dynamically created everytime. The downside is that if your index.html page is supposed to have dynamic information ('welcome back <your name here>') it wouldn't have that. You could cache *parts* of the page - if you have a 'news' area that is updated every 30 minutes, creating that HTML and caching it on disk would save that amount of time building it from database every hit. If the disk is slow, tho, pulling from DB might be faster anyway. -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961