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Originally posted by kad
IMHO dont bother with them. They will give you a 3-5% increase in speed, but thats about it. It doesn't make for a very scalable system. Look at which part of the script is slow and improve it.
Using a cacher or optimiser is sort of 'cheating' and is only a short term solution.
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Sorry,
but this is absolutely not true.
I don't know how many hits you have but if you have a lot you will see a significant increase. I am running 500,000 database intense hits per day on one machine with php accelerator and no worries at a load of 0.2 - 0.4 .. ( 1 gig of ram and dual 1ghz cpu) ..
You can significantly speed up your sites if you use the new Smarty template engine
http://smarty.php.net in combination with php accelerator.
Plus, use the caching function of Mysql 4.x and you save a lot of money as you don't need additional hardware to scale your traffic.
How do you define 'cheating' in relation to a cacher?
Greetings
Mike