Hi, was just wanting to ask about the performance of SS on MediaTemple GS.

I was reading this forum post :http://www.silverstripe.org/archive/show/107990#post107990 about slow speeds which offered a solution here : http://doc.silverstripe.org/contentdeliverynetworkissues but it looks a bit over my head and seems like it will still be slow to load in New Zealand anyway, so perhaps it is best go for another CMS? Though this issue was from 2008, so maybe things are resolved?

I would love to give SS a go, so updates or additional comments about overcoming the slowness would be great.

Cheers,

Tim

I run about eight to ten SilverStripe websites on both Media Temple GS and DV servers. My experience is, if you upgrade to the DV server, that alone will give SS a giant boost in speed. On the GS, it is noticeably slower. But like Willr said, enabling caching will help. You could also look into the module that converts your pages to static HTML, for even better performance boosts.

Hi Ryan

I am running a Silverstripe install on Media Temple dv 3.5.

I am having a problem getting my cache blocks to work. I have my 'silverstripe-cache' directory permissions at 777, but nothing is being written to the 'cache ' folder within the 'silverstripe-cache' folder (no zend files). Therefore my partial cacheing is not working. My cache folder has permissions of 'owner: apache' and 755.

Have you ever experienced anything like this on Media Temple?

Any suggestions would be awesome! Thanks!

Hi,
i create a cache-folder inside the data folder from my media template account. so that it is siblings to the tmp folder where the php sessions are stored. i'm not 100% sure, if it's the best way, but it works...