Following our earlier entry about installing Magento Enterprise, we thought it would be appropriate to follow up with some tips for getting more from your Magento installation. One of the major criticisms leveled at Magento is its speed; many complain that it is far too slow. In this article we'll go through some steps you can perform to fine-tune your server to allow Magento to run more smoothly and more quickly in a production environment. Our examples are geared at a Debian-based LAMP stack, but most can be adapted for other platforms.
Check out our tips on:
- memcached
- mod_cache
- mod_expires
- Apache KeepAlive
- APC
- Alternative session storage
- GZip
- MySQLTuner
- and a bonus security tip!
