Bastein, Response is unique per request, and not cachable. The app fetches records from MySQL (say, templates), performs a process on them, and returns the generated output as JSON. We were thinking to use Redis to reduce queries against MySQL, but still Apache will remain as our bottleneck. On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Bastien <phpster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Bastien Koert > > On 2013-02-09, at 11:42 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami <behzad.eslami@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > We're a developing a PHP-driven web service with a RESTful API, > > and we have a dedicated Linux server for that with 6GB of RAM. > > > > Since this service will be used by many clients in a concurrent > > manner, we'll face with a high-load on our web-server. But > > web-services are different from web pages, for instance they > > don't include images, or in this case we only serve JSON. > > > > I'm wondering what are the recommended configurations for > > the Apache web-server in these situations? Should we disable > > keep-avlie? What about other directives? Apache is our > > bottleneck, and we're trying to optimize it. Should we use nginx instead? > > > > Please let me know your suggestions. > > > > Thank you, > > -behzad > > How much of that data is cachable? You're likely to get bigger performance > gains from caching frequent data. > > Keep-alive at maybe 1 second. > > But would need to know more about the app to be able to suggest more > > Bastien
