You can use “W3 Total Cache” which isn’t a static file cache system. It however uses stuff such as opcode caching, memcached, and object caching to decrease page load time. APC, or another opcache, would be a good addition to your server, as well as using a lightweight httpd instead of bloated Apache. Forcing GZIP … Read more
You can try looking at this plugin WordPress ImageMagick Engine Replaces wordpress image resizing from GD to ImageMagick. You need a compatible host to use it though
For every scaling question you can look at wordpress.com and see how big they are. I do’t know the details but I think that with all the users of wordpress.com itself, akismet users and jetpack users, an estimate of 1M users can’t be totally wrong.. In addition so far as far as auttomatic people say … Read more
If INT is set to UNSIGNED, allowing only non-negative integers, your value range is from 0 to 4294967295. Thats… 4,294,967,295 (4 billion +). …for the given table. Just to put things into perspective. Only through poor management and unnecessary incrementation would you exhaust that range, say for your posts table as an example. That said … Read more
The problem comes from the fact that, in order to display pages and their hierarchy, WP has to load all of them and then build the tree in memory. So, you are saved if you can convert most of those pages into one or several non-hierarchical custom post types. The permalink structure can be emulated.
The Bad News: The core open source base of WordPress does make quite a few assumptions about being run on a single server (wp-content, user uploads and media library to name a few) The Good News: Pretty much all cloud providers (including Azure) have abstractions that allow you to work around these design limitations. Fundamentally, … Read more
On shared hosting plans your caching options are limited. You will only be able to statically cache the html output from your pages. This is the fastest way to serve pages but you loose the dynamic aspects of WordPress like making comments and seeing the latest comments on posts. There are disk caching options available … Read more
Clearly nothing scales as well as static files served by a fast web server and any CMS that has to figure out what to load and then load it will not perform as well, WordPress or otherwise. One of the issues is the number of database queries required per URL request and my 2 prior … Read more
Basic differences: Media is stored in a separate storage account and MySQL database is automatically scalable using ClearDB (master-master replica). Regular WordPress is single site single database only. For performance critical scenarios, scalable wordpress will handle a lot more concurrent requests. It also provides contingency.
You can use the Axes.set_yscale method. That allows you to change the scale after the Axes object is created. That would also allow you to build a control to let the user pick the scale if you needed to. The relevant line to add is: You can use ‘linear’ to switch back to a linear scale. Here’s what your code would … Read more