Centric IT

There are certain things I keep close to hand when I’m presented with a new site by our development team. I use these sites and books as a basis for most criticisms, decisions and tweaks I make when deploying a new site. This detail in these guides is generally focused on LAMP sites, although the [...]

Add these simple directives into your Apache configuration and you should notice a considerable increase in speed in the delivery of pages. As a working example, I performed these tweaks on http://www.shortlist.com/. Here are the before and after stats:

The changes are:

Homepage on an empty cache from 956.6k to 658.9k, both 133 requests.
Homepage on a primed [...]

This post is to do with a discovery I made while making performance tweaks on the webservers for http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com. This particular setup has six loadbalanced webservers and eight database back-ends designed to cater for a high amount of shorter bursts of traffic.
There was  problem however with the site not responding, even though the servers were [...]