lighttpd / apache / textdrive speed up!

sbecker — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:01:55 -0700

My websites running on textdrive were running really slow, which was frustrating since I’ve heard all the talk about how lighttpd is supposed to be fast fast fast. I was starting to think it was because my sites are on a shared server with many other websites. To my relief, it wasn’t that at all. After digging around on their forums, I discovered the issue!

To quote user ‘jmoses’:

“The slowness is caused by the Apache proxying. It takes apache forever to lookup the domain name to forward to.

If you change your ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse from http://<hostname>:<port> to http://localhost:<port> you should see a dramatic speedup. I went from ~5-8s a request, to <1s."

Well, I just made the change, and bam, my sites are way faster.

See the whole thread.

They really need to change this on the textdrive manuals site.

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lighttpd / apache / textdrive speed up!