Magento Site Performance Optimization -- Table of Contents -- Magento Site Performance Optimization -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Starting with the Right Hardware -- Measuring performance -- Evaluating your needs -- Doubling the CPU -- Doubling the RAM -- Doubling CPU and RAM -- Measuring the impact of disk rate -- Selecting a trusted company -- Handling more than what you physically can -- Content Delivery Network -- Summary -- 2. Choosing the Best Web Server -- Evaluating your needs -- Choosing the best server for your e-commerce website -- Installing the Apache HTTP server 2.2.22 -- Before optimization -- Configuration tweaks -- Using mod_deflate -- The keepAlive and max processes -- Compiling Apache 2.2 -- Installing the lighttpd 1.4.28 web server -- Before optimization -- Configuration tweaks -- Installing the Nginx 1.1.19 web server -- Before optimization -- Configuration tweaks -- Summary -- 3. Tuning, Scaling, and Replicating MySQL -- Understanding why MySQL is too stressed -- Configuring MySQL for high performance -- Tuning MySQL using the mysqltuner.pl script -- Tuning MySQL using the tuning Primer -- Tuning my.cnf for performance -- Optimizing our table -- Truncating some tables for performance -- Moving MySQL to its own dedicated server -- Replicating MySQL on a slave server -- Summary -- 4. Caching Them All -- What is caching? -- Exploring built-in Magento caching mechanisms -- Using RAM to store cache files -- Installing other caching tools -- Varnish Cache.

Alternative PHP Cache -- The memcached object caching system -- Lesti::Fpc - full page cache for Magento -- Installing Lesti::Fpc -- Understanding the limitations of cache mechanisms -- HipHop Virtual Machine -- Summary -- Index.