Administration Techniques

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Improving/Extending PHP

  1. Run PHP as FastCGI (separate CGI process from webserver)
  2. APC – PHP Accelerator (debian package php-apc, setup-docs, website)
  3. Pinba is a realtime monitoring/statistics server for PHP using MySQL as a read-only interface.

Reverse Proxies

  • Varnish – HTTP Proxy
  • memcached – memory object caching system – an in-memory key-value-store