Use jQuery or Javascript to cycle through and randomly pick one of your links, this way you can bypass the caching? var messages = [“Good!”, “Great!”, “Awesome!”, “Super!”, “Nice!”]; function getMessage() { return messages[Math.floor(Math.random() * messages.length)]; } From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3419928/how-can-i-return-a-random-value-from-an-array
First of all, we need to clear up some terminology here. You and your host are citing “Apache connections,” which makes no sense. Basic Application Lifecycle WordPress is a PHP application. PHP is run in Apache using (typically) mod_php. When a user requests your website, they send an HTTP request to your server (Apache). Apache … Read more
I don’t think there is any WordPress specific solution, but I personally use blitz.io to do the load testing for our solutions. Actually you could also use one of the usual (free) tools (like Apache bench), but then you’ll have to consider a lot of other variables to make sure that you really create real-world-numbers … Read more
Yes, that should be enough if you don’t install poorly written plugins or themes. You should use PHP 5.5 and its built-in OPcache and a multisite setup for more sites. This will reduce load time and the resources you need for the sites.
I would suggest using nginx along with varnish. Varnish is a caching mechanism which runs on top of Apache/nginx. You can configure it to purge the cache after a specific time if you have users updating content often. In terms of server configuration, I would recommend Amazon Web Services’ EC2. This will allow you to … Read more
Disabling garbage collection only means that what ever memory is being leaked will reamain leaked and there will be no effort to reclaim it. To fix 500 problems you need to check the actual errors reported at the php error log.
Make sure you run each Pingdom test a few times to average out results! The two things that will most likely account for your difference in results here are : The power and other specification of the server – the faster site is https, so may be able to use http/2; the faster site may … Read more
Preface It would be best to see what kind of caching options are available through your host. If you can use an object cache, CDN, or anything like that, you could decrease the load on your server. If your database and webserver are the same host, then storing this in the database won’t necessarily mean … Read more
Reduce the amount of plugins. Check your theme for memory intense stuff or lots of queries. Add this line to your footer or hook it to the shutdown hook to see some basic information: <!– Time needed to print this page: <?php timer_stop( 0, 3 ); ?> Number of queries needed to process this request: … Read more
It looks like your site is doing a lot of processing when displaying a page. have you tried adding a caching mechanism? you can give plugin a try: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/