Posts Tagged ‘caching’

In the beginning, when the Internet was new, it was easy to create fast HTML web pages that could load easily on a dial-up modem. Once a page was requested, the browser would create a cached version of the site on the computer in a temporary directory and later, should that page be requested again, it would simply serve the cached version instead of making a request to the server. This made everything much faster! Then dynamic pages came onto the scene and messed that idea up. Now we must make requests to our server every time the… View full post »

Site performance versus traffic: it is a tough battle to fight. When working with PHP applications we usually have to face this issue sooner or later, as a site becomes more popular it can begin to suffer from performance issues. There are several ways that you can improve your site’s performance to help solve this problem, but one of the easiest ways is to set up PHP caching. PHP Caching is an excellent solution for Web sites that wish to improve their site performance by allowing their dynamic pages to be stored client-side by your application. These solutions… View full post »