Adelaide & Sydney Web Design, web development, Joomla & Search Engine Optimisation

We’ve recently been managing a website with a very high volume of traffic. Not only are there a huge amount of visitors but also a rather long stay time and usage or resources on the server. We investigated ways of optimizing the server and site to handle these high levels of traffic.

This particular Joomla based site averages roughly, 6000 unique visitors a day with user registering on the site every few minutes to interact with the site’s functions.

So here are a few tips and tricks that can be done to optimise the server environment to help handle the high server loads after you have optimised your instance of Joomla. I must also add that these tweaks are for an Apache based web server. (more…)