Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx

Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by jacques_chester on Thursday September 27, 2012 @12:07AM (#4579287)

My point is that loading, parsing and interpreting PHP is rarely the bottleneck in Wordpress.

In terms of microbenchmarks, opcode caches look spectacular. In terms of the larger stack, given the way Wordpress works? Meh, a few percent.

It might be worth it for a big site to shave a few dozen servers off the bill. But the overhead imposed by flakiness is not worth my time.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by mh- on Thursday September 27, 2012 @01:46AM (#4579529)

I've never heard of anyone not get incredible speedups with APC. We're talking 250%+. Every (large) production PHP deployment I've seen, disabling APC would make everything fall over. They would need 3-4x as much capacity.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by andrewaylett on Thursday September 27, 2012 @10:26AM (#4580827)

I think the big point here is that on a Wordpress site, most hits don't actually get as far as PHP -- most of the time, pages can be served statically from wp-supercache or similar.

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