Joomla.org - blazingly fast - how?

[alwarren]

I just made a trip around the joomla.org website. It seems blazingly fast. I noticed when moving from menu item to menu item it seems like only the bottom 2/3 or content pane refreshes. Now, I'm on dialup and this is a huge improvement. I notice every little lag when loading pages. Heck, my sandbox at home is not even that fast. Is it the template? Cache settings? patTemplating? It's driving me crazy wondering - how you do that?

[brad]

I'd say a combination of a good template, good server, and a GREAT CMS.

[kenmcd]

From an older post . . . (may have changed)

This server has 1 GB of RAM and dual AMD Athlon 64 Opteron chips.
It is running CentOS release 4.1, MySQL 4.0.25 (soon to be upgraded), Apache 1.3.33, and PHP 4.4.0 with eAccelerator as an extra boost for PHP.

Great horsepower.
Probably has very fast drives.
Properly tuned MySQL caches/buffers and eAccelerator PHP cache also make a BIG difference (on any hardware).

[[Unknown]]

Properly tuned MySQL caches/buffers and eAccelerator PHP cache also make a BIG difference (on any hardware).

Most certainly.  Assuming good index/key usage and good code, such "tweaking" goes a wonderfully long way.

Pages are also fairly small and to the point.

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