Re:Serving 1.4 Billion Requests per Month With Wordpress For...
by Groxx on Friday July 06, 2012 @01:34PM
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Incredibly over-simplified, to the point that many sites can't take the steps offered, and it gives no explanation that would help them realize this or find out why.
The tl;dr: static files are faster and cheaper to serve than a fully-dynamic database-driven PHP site.
Articles like this are the worst thing you can do to help people.
Please, juste use Varnish next time.
The tl;dr: static files are faster and cheaper to serve than a fully-dynamic database-driven PHP site.