Tag Archives: performance

Further testing with Zend Server

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Benjamin

We have been experimenting with Zend Server over the past few days, trialling its performance and suitability for a replacement of mod_php on our servers. So far the results have been promising and it could be a system-wide roll out … Continue reading →

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ZendServer and Magento

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Benjamin

I had awaited the Zend Server webinar on Magento performance for a good few weeks and could honestly say that the geek in me was looking forward to it. After reading an interesting article by Philippe Humeau, NBS System – … Continue reading →

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Find the fastest Magento hosts easily …. MageBenchmark is semi-live

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Benjamin

In the best interests of the community (and the fact we’re always up for a little competition), we’ve soft-launched a new project MageBenchmark. Its in the early stages at the moment as we are just harvesting URLs, we are aiming … Continue reading →

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Safari 4 released for Mac / PC

Posted on June 9, 2009 by

Today, Apple released the final version of Safari 4, for both PC and Mac. Features include: Top Sites See your favorite websites at a glance. Open one with a single click. Cover Flow Flip through your site history or bookmarks … Continue reading →

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PHP: Combine and compile CSS and JS into Gzipped files

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Benjamin

This has actually been the secret behind a lot of our great system performance, but as it was open source originally, it’s going back to the people. Its a relatively straightforward script and speeds up JS and CSS performance by … Continue reading →

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