Wordpress vs. Luke
This blog runs the excellent Wordpress blogging software. In addition, to be nicer to the system it’s hosted on (at Dreamhost), I’ve got the WP-Cache plugin installed (which caches pages so that they don’t have to be regenerated on every page load.)
At the moment I’ve got things running under CGI, which isn’t the most efficient way of doing things (but it’s easy.)
In order to satisfy my own curiosity, as well as squeeze a little bit more performance out, I tried the other day to get this Wordpress install to play nice with PHP running through FastCGI, with the APC PHP opcode cache. I say ‘tried’ because it was a complete and utter failure. APC and WP-Cache definitely don’t like each other one little bit.