[Mediawiki-l] Server performance: Google is killing MediaWiki

[David Gerard]

On 23/12/2007, Agon S. Buchholz <asb at kefk.net> wrote:

> The general idea was to relieve MediaWiki from generating dynamic pages
> all over again to free server resources for other tasks. I've never
> thought I'd need something like APC for my (small) site, but I'll check
> this out.


Mediawiki has the power of a tank and the durability of a tank, with
the gas mileage of a tank ;-)

PHP is sometimes not such an efficient use of server resources and
caching is a good idea. I even run wpcache on my tiny WordPress blog.


- d.