Not So Fast
Written by Michael on August 23rd, 2005It figures, just as I start to like my new site design and content management system, I may be forced to change everything. The html your reading doesn’t exist until you call it. All the text, pictures and html framework are stored in MySQL database tables that are called up by PHP scripts when you access a page under my /wp (Wordpress) directory. The problem is that PHP is pretty CPU intensive and calling dynamic data from db tables doesn’t help. If my database tuning exercises don’t go well, I’m going to have to start from scratch and will probably to back to MoveableType.
This page should load in .01 seconds and not 17-30 like it’s been the past week. Like I have time for this…
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I’ve been researching CMS for several weeks now, and the vast majority seem to operate this way. As I test a few I see that there are performance issues. If you have to switch, you may want to check out http://www.cmsmatrix.org. One of the dimensions of their matrix is database engine. May or may not save you some time…but good luck.
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Thanks Tom, I didn’t know about cmsmatrix and it looks pretty helpful.