After teasing in my last post, here is the full tutorial on how to improve your WordPress performances.
This idea started last week. As a Solution Architect @Hegerys, I had to provide a new solution for Magento hosting on a unique dedicated server.
But as we all know, if Magento is a very good and competitive eCommerce Software, it is also one of the slower, if not the slowest and heavyest. Getting good performance for this kind of web application on a unique dedicated server just seemed impossible.
Then before delivering, I wanted to test out how I could improve performances on a web software without having to get my hands directly into the code.
I had this wordpress blog (the one you’re reading) on a non-optimized WordPress behing a non-optimized apache+mod_php, on a very little VPS (1VCore, 1GBram).
When I started this work, http://blog.brigato.fr was only handling 5 requests/sec. It now handles more than 6000 requests/sec.
By following this tutorial, you should be able to improve a fresh untouched Wordbress performances by a factor 1000, and an optimized (W3 Total Cache, APC Enabled…) WordPress by a factor 400.
