I run a site which has been performing very badly recently – lots of crashes, memory exceptions and the like. It’s hosted by the wonderful Dreamhost and I contacted them to see what the problem was. Basically the site was using too much memory. Ho hum.
So I took a quick look around and found this article on improving BuddyPress performance written by my friend Andy Peatling. Basically I just turned on wp_cache in my wp-config.php file and enabled XCache and look:
If that’s not a fantastic result I don’t know what is.
So if you’re a DJ and you’re looking for free mix hosting, BeatsBase.com is now working again!
I’m also rewriting the site to have some more Web 2.0 Social Networking features (using, you guessed it, BuddyPress) such as cool member profiles, groups and friends, on-site messaging and more. I also aim to get some kind of integration with Facebook and Twitter going, but of quite what nature I’m not sure yet. This is all dependent on time, of course.
Lots of exciting news here! And thanks for the pointer to better performance. I’ll start a buddypress community in a few weeks and haven’t started thinking about performance.
Will donate again when/if invites turn up for buddypress! 🙂
Tore