This ‘Speed up Moodle’ series of 4 posts will teach you step-by-step how to optimise your Linux server for Moodle. It is aimed at beginner server administrators. If you find any mistakes or inconsistencies, please comment and I’ll rectify ASAP. This fourth post is about enabling APC, an opcode cache on your server, probably the easiest and most efficient step to increase server performance.
This post is part of ‘Speed up Moodle’, a 4 post series showing ways to optimize a Moodle server. By default, Apache loads modules that might not be needed for your Web server. In this third post, I show you how to disable the unnecessary Apache modules to run a bare bones Moodle installation.
This post is part of ‘Speed up Moodle’, a 4 post series showing ways to optimize a Moodle server. Moodle is a database driven application, and the faster the database, the faster your Moodle installation will be. In the second post, I show you a simple way to increase your Moodle database performance, focusing on MySQL. Do keep in mind that fine tuning a database is a vast topic, and entire books have been dedicated to it. In this post, I only focus on the part that will likely show the most improvement.
This ‘Speed up Moodle’ series of 4 posts will teach you step-by-step how to optimise your Linux server for Moodle. It is aimed at beginner server administrators. If you find any mistakes or inconsistencies, please comment and I’ll rectify ASAP. This first post is about optimising Apache for Moodle. Check out the other posts on optimising MySQL, installation of an opcode cache such as APC and other ways to optimise your Moodle server. Please see ‘Assumptions’ and ‘Technical notes’ at the bottom of this post.