OT: why are LAMP sites slow?

[Tim Daneliuk]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Simon Wittber <simonwittber at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>Slow is such an ambiguous term. Do you mean the pages are slow to
>>render in a browser, or slow to be fetched from the server, or the
>>server is slow to respond to requests? What is slow?
> 
> 
> The server is slow to respond to requests.  Browser rendering is
> independent of the server architecture and "slow to be fetched from
> the server" sounds like it means low network speed.  I'm talking about
> the very familiar experience of clicking a link and then waiting,
> waiting, waiting for the page to load.  You rarely see that happen
> with Ebay or Google.  It happens all the time with Wikipedia.

This has a lot to do with the latency and speed of the connecting
network. Sites like Ebay, Google, and Amazon are connected
to internet backbone nodes (for speed) and are cached throughout
the network using things like Akami (to reduce latency)...

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