Magento Site Performance Optimization

Preface
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Starting with the Right Hardware, enables us to understand our needs in terms
of horsepower. In addition, this first chapter will show us which criteria should dictate
the choice of a trustee company to host your Magento. Finally, we will also learn how
to handle more than we can physically handle by taking advantage of the localization
and using CDN or external services.
Chapter 2, Choosing the Best Web Server, guides us through the installation of three major
players in the web server market: Apache, lighttpd, and Nginx. We will also learn how
to optimize each one of these three web servers and present the clear winner.
Chapter 3, Tuning, Scaling, and Replicating MySQL, makes us understand why MySQL
is the bottleneck of our Magento applications and how to optimize it. To do so,
we will use a set of dedicated scripts which are analyzing the usage of the MySQL
database and advice for better configuration.
Chapter 4, Caching Them All, explains how to take advantage of different caching
mechanisms in order to store—instead of recomputing—the requests of your
customers, in terms of HTTP requests, PHP byte code, and random objects using
Varnish, APC, and memcache, respectively. We also see how to use FPC and the
Facebook HipHop Virtual Machine.
What you need for this book
In order to follow, without any difficulties, the technics and code sample included
into this book, the reader should have a little knowledge about Linux commands
such as cd, ls, wget, and so on. Also, the reader should have already installed a
Magento server by him/herself in order to be familiar with the folder and file
architecture of Magento.
Who this book is for
This book is written for Magento administrators who wish to optimize their store
to increase the performance without having to spend USD 17,000 a year for the
Enterprise Edition of Magento. It should be noted that Magento is a project with a
gigantic code base and the tools to optimize it aren't trivial either; the readers must
be willing to get their hands dirty and produce some code themselves.
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