PHP Accelerators

PHP Accelerators/Cachers will boost the performance of your PHP applications, by caching the compiled form of php scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling the code every time the page is loaded. A PHP accelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times. Normally you will install these in …

Why APC sucks (and should be pulled from PECL)

APC (Alternative PHP Caching http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php) is a memory based opcode caching system which supports variable caching inside of php scripts.  It’s among 3 major opcode cachers for PHP (the other two are XCache and EAccelerator).  While APC sounds great (after all, to install it all you need to type is `pecl install apc`), it suffers from a …