[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14833: performance serving static files

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#14833: performance serving static files
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 Reporter:  sdboer       |       Owner:                 
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:  3.1            
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:                 
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 What we are seeing with wordpress3 multisite installations (with
 subdirectory option) is that the references to, for example, .css files
 inside pages from a blog point to the filesystem under
 "http://host.domain.tld/blogname/path/to/file.css".

 The file in this case is found on the filesystem under
 "http://host.domain.tld/path/to/file.css".

 The requests are then rewritten to php which in turn will serve out the
 correct file.

 What is worrying about this is in situations where the blog gets a
 serious number of hits per minute. Files served out by apache directly
 from the filesystem can be served out by a single gigabit server at
 wirespeed to many simultaneous clients.  This is much less the case for
 requests processed by php.

 In this particular case if the files referenced from blog pages would
 point to the correct location on the filesystem, you can benefit from the
 fact that requests resulting from those references don't have to be
 processed by php.

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