performance / caching

[nilsmillahn]

Hi everybody,

could someone provide a detailed explanation of the caching mechanism used by CMSMS please?

The feature list mentions "Intelligent caching mechanism to only get what is necessary from the database" - but I can't find further details on what it actually does and what impact it has on speed.

I'm a bit concerned about performance issues - while the feature set and usability of CMSMS are great, the cmsmadesimple.org site has always seemed quite sluggish to me and I've read other posts saying that CMSMS wasn't a good solution for larger commercial projects. Are there any benchmarks available? Has anybody implemented it on larger sites?

- Nils.

[pishkus]

CMSMS is using smarty caching mechanism http://smarty.php.net

For me, cmsms site is also sometimes runnig slowly, but i think it's because of the shared hosting problems. Sometimes it works very well. Besides, if the hosting in other country than the user, it might be the users bandwidth issues.
It depens, on whether the site is generated slowly or it is displayed slowly. To check the generation speed, you can check the HTML source footer - there is generation time provided.

Btw, i don't know any portals (at least big) to be using CMSMS.

[tsw]

http://www.allinfoaboutautorepairs.com/

*lots* of content

[nilsmillahn]

thanks for all the replies...

I remember reading about a lottery site with 20k (?) users in the front-end-user module discussion forum - it would be good to get some numbers and server configuration examples from sites like that...

pishkus - what kind of server setup are you running? Did you change CMSMS in any way to increase performance (deleted unused features, etc)?

- Nils.

[Pierre M.]

May be Apache's mod_cache can help ?
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg44814

PM