PHP Caching…
Found these articles on how to use server side PHP caching… article here and here.
The benefit of caching pages instead of dynamically generating it for each request from a web browser, is that it speeds up the serving of pages as well as limits the load on the server…
Well, another alternative to this is compiler caching… but this would mean installing some additional plug-ins to PHP itself…. however since I’m on a shared server… I don’t think that would be possible…
Anywho… here are the links to the most popular caching compilers available… some of them are even open source…
1. APC
2. eAcellerator
3. Ion Cube
4. Zend Optimizer
I haven’t tested this yet so can’t really comment… might be good to check it’s compatibility with PHP 5.
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