I've started using CMS made simple for my personal website. I host it on a cheap and pretty lame web host, so the page generation is pretty slow (particularly MySQL lookups).
I was getting about 1.5s page load time, which is too much in my books. In order to combat this, I tried using the caching add-on. This cut the reported page generation time down to about 0.5s, which was much better.
Still, it's not as fast as true static content. I came up with a quick'n'dirty hack that speeds up my site enormously: I'm just caching the output of cmsms wholesale. For anyone interested, I've attached my code. I expect this will break search, since it will cache results. I don't use search so I haven't added a bypass for searches.
For those interested, I've attached my code.
I chose not to use the php gzip file operations since I expect cpu is a more valuable resource than disk on my host. It is a trivial change to make, just subsitute gzopen/gzeof/gzread for fopen/feof/fread.
To use these files you need to rename index.php and stylesheet.php in cmsms's base folder to index_normal.php and stylesheet_normal.php before uploading their replacements. Oh, and rename these from .txt to .php of course. I had to do that because this forum won't let me upload .php files.
Clearing the cache is easy enough, just rm -f ./indexcache/*. Ideally there'd be something which would clear the specific page's cache when the page was edited. I might look through the cmsms code and see if I can find somewhere to insert such a nugget of code.
My lazy solution for slow page generation
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fearofcorners
My lazy solution for slow page generation
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Last edited by fearofcorners on Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:52 am, edited 1 time in total.
