Tweaking WordPress

So who would’ve thought you can’t just install some software and expect it to work from day one?  Well it was working, but then something broke.  I’m still trying to work out what, but I’ve been trying to tweak my little server to run a bit better.  Before I started it couldn’t handle more than 3 requests/second.  Hopeless really.  Now I’ve managed to get this to nearly 25 requests/second.  Not great, but certainly acceptable.

Anyway, I’ve found some great little guides to help tweak WordPress and my Apache system:

• WordPress Optimization Bible
• Optimize Apache for WordPress

Hope this helps someone else out there…

Update #1: Well that didn’t work too well.  Seems that when I publish a post, WordPress sends a message to “Ping-o-matic” wihich then tells a number of other system I submitted a post, so come index it.  On a normal web host this wouldn’t be too much of an issue, but this SLAMS my poor little server had and forces it into page-swap hell!  So, some more tweaking and I hope I can sort it out…  Either that or only publish posts late at night when the server have get slamed without affecting anyone too much.

Update #2: Ok, that fixed it!  To help improve performance for Apache and large volumes of traffic turn OFF KeepAlive!!  Kudos goes to Patrick from MicroISV on a Shoestring:
Running Apache On A Memory-Constrained VPS