Magento Site Performance Optimization

Chapter 2
Choosing the best server for your
e-commerce website
As in the previous chapter, we will use the Apache benchmark tool to benchmark
the different web servers. Here is the command that sends 100 requests with a
concurrency level of 5:
ab -n 100 -c 5 http://localhost/magento/index.php/furniture/livingroom.html
Once again, we target the living-room page which displays the furniture/livingroom
category. This page stresses our web servers and database. We will test all the
web servers with the exact same hardware as follows:
Ubuntu 12.04 64bits
2 Proc @ 1.80 GHz
2 GB Ram
10 Gig SSD disks
In the next sections, we will pass through the installation, evaluation, and
optimization of the Apache HTTP server, lighttpd, and Nginx.
Installing the Apache HTTP server 2.2.22
This is the very first hands-on section of this book. Let's install the latest release of
the Apache HTTP server, which is the 2.2.22. You can get it run by simply invoking
the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2
We will not dig deep into the details of the classical installation. This book tackles the
optimization of such servers with the assumption that they are already running.
To execute the command, you need to own root access
to your server.
Before optimization
The following is the result of our test against an out-of-the-box Apache2 server:
Document Path:
Document Length:
/magento/index.php/furniture/living-room.html
36634 bytes
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