Make Movable Type 15 times faster!
Over the past year the Movable Type team and community has gone from playing with FastCGI to recommending to everyone to use it. Why? Because running Movable Type under FastCGI can yield up to a 15x performance increase. And now, with the release of Movable Type 3.34 FastCGI support fully integrated into Movable Type.
So why FastCGI? Here are just a few of the reasons why FastCGI means, a faster, more scalable, more reliable Movable Type:
- Increased Application Performance – FastCGI has shown to increase application performance by almost 15 times. The performance boost is so dramatic because the application is persisted in memory, allowing information to be cached between page requests reducing page load time and database load.
- Increased Commenting Performance – Movable Type routes incoming comments through the application in order to filter out comment spam and to store them in the database for moderation or publication. Therefore, the time it takes to process a comment is greatly enhanced for all the same reasons the application performance is increased.
- Increased Reliability – Fewer resources are needed to load a single page within the Movable Type application, reducing web server loads and database load, taxing your system less and freeing up those resources for other applications and system components.
- Increased Resiliency During Spam Attacks – When a blog is undergoing a spam attack its resources are put under tremendous load. Under this kind of attack any application has to process each comment in order to determine whether it is spam or not. Under FastCGI, comment spam can be processed and filtered much faster because the Movable Type application is resident in memory lowering database load and network overhead.
Keep reading to find resources to help you get up and running using Movable Type and FastCGI.
Movable Type 3.34 Beta 1 Released
On Friday we released Movable Type 3.34 Beta 1 to the ProNet mailing list. Today we are announcing the general availability of the beta to the broader ProNet community. Movable Type 3.34 contains some important bug fixes and security patches. Users and administrators are encouraged to upgrade when it is released the week of January 15th. To learn more about the release, visit the Movable Type Beta Blog and read the release notes.
If you would like to help us in testing this release download the beta from the Beta Blog and please report any problems you find.
