Re: PHPBB Speed Issues

Ashley Sheridan wrote: > I've optimised the images in the template, enabled the GZ compression, > and it's only improved the speed by a mere fraction. I have noticed that > the page itself doesn't display until after this delay, so I was > guessing that I could maybe force the buffer to flush at key intervals > to give the impression the pages are loading faster. Does anybody have > any insights into this? To bring things more on topic, why not rather have a discussion about general scalability? 1. Cache as much as you can (everything) 2. Minimise HTTP requests 3. Use an opcode cache like APC 4. Use a RAM based cache system like memcacheD and give your db a breather 5. FINALLY, throw more hardware at it. -- -- Paul http://www.paulscott.za.net/ http://twitter.com/paulscott56 http://avoir.uwc.ac.za