Was your blog ever brought to its knees by a sudden spike in traffic following a link from a high profile site’s front page or an infinite chain of tweets? Well, mine did, and it failed miserably as would any WordPress installation using the default configuration and infrastructure. This talk will start with high-level optimization rules of thumb and common WordPress perfomance bottlenecks then tackle various optimization strategies, from simple Apache configuration tweaks and specialized WordPress plugins, to content distribution mechanisms and reverse proxy techniques such as nginx. Let me share some of my actionable tricks along with some benchmark data to compare the alternatives. Let’s boost your blog together.
Geared to anyone interested in WordPress speed optimization. While some background knowledge of system administration, or web development in general would be nice, any blogger could benefit from most part of the material, at least to get to know the optimization alternatives.
About Pascal
I’m an entrepreneur with some vision for the future. I like to tackle, mash and hack lots of new and interesting technologies. For more then 10 years, I’ve been specializing in speech recognition and telephony but I have vast interest in other building blocks such a web, cloud-computing, automation, linguistics, jvm languages, Linux, and such. I love to create new and innovative things. I tend to stay on the pragmatic side of things. Follow @pdeschen on Twitter and visit rassembling bits.
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