Using a CDN to speed up WordPress

October 27, 2010

We recently moved our blog from a Jumpbox VM to Windows 2008 R2 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. It makes setting up WordPress a doddle on Windows as it automatically installs and configures PHP, MySQL, IIS and WordPress in a couple of easy steps: One performance benefit we got immediately was that HTTP compression was enabled by the installer in IIS 7.5 reducing the download size of any text based content: In true dogfooding style we decided to use HttpWatch to look for some other easy performance gains. The first problem evident from the waterfall time chart was how … Continue reading →