Tag Archives: Performance

WordPress performance tuning

While migrating from one server to a Amazon AWS i noticed a huge decrease in performance on the AWS instance. While the Wordpress blog took a second or so to load on the old server (dedicated server) the processing time went up to about 5-10 seconds for one page load. At first you might immediately think of the server as the bottle neck. But a slow server will just bring the problem to light. Continue reading

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Is MongoDB always faster then MySQL?

This is another classic question you might have come across, but can this question simply be answered with a YES or NO? Well, I would not write about it if the answer was that easy! Continue reading

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From what size of data MySQL is not performant any more?

Is this the right Question? Somebody asked me this question and I told myself to write about that topic. This questions are always lacking of of context, but there might be a correct answer. Usually you don’t reach the performance limit of MySQL very easily. Its the wrong questions you ask…
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