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Daniel Fischer
Asked: 2010-02-15 18:30:36 +0800 CST

Is a php accelerator/php cache a must?

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I run a linode VPS with 512MB of memory and I was wondering if a PHP accelerator or PHp cache is a must have?

The point of the server is a vBulletin forum.

Which one would you recommend if so?

php vbulletin

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  1. Best Answer

    protip: 99% of systems administration is trial & error

    no one can tell you what the memory-footprint/performance tradeoff for your version of vbulletin running your inevitable customizations at your traffic levels, sharing a tiny vps with whatever else you're doing, is going to be.

    that said, apc is pretty much standard-issue at this point. I'd have to have a reason not to set it up on any new php environment, and you haven't shown one yet.

    edit: and if this is apache/mod_php you'd better have your maxclients/serverlimit down at like 10

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  2. The best way to try this is doing some tests and testing the performance.

    I used Accelerators sometime ago when I deployed SquirrelMail to 100k users, the performance increased 5 times. After that I got other problems and solved using a reverse proxy in the front and distributing the load through more machines.

    But it's a great solution and the unique thing you can do is test.

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