How about ez's speed, fast? slow?

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Minghui Yu

Friday 05 November 2004 12:40:30 am

I am considering ez for my CMS. (seriously, have purchased the ez's book online). But it is said that ez is very very slow.

Is that true?

Minghui Yu

Friday 05 November 2004 1:40:15 am

Here is an article about ez

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ezpublish/?branch_id=2516&release_id=176782

"[»] Wildly inefficient use of SQL queries
by Ian Clarke - Jan 13th 2004 04:59:48

This software makes such inefficient use of SQL queries it is almost comical. At a guess, displaying a typical page results in tens, perhaps as many as a hundred SQL queries! It is close to a text-book example of how not to write efficient PHP/SQL code.

Do *not* use this software if you expect more than a few hundred hits a day, and make sure you run it on a beefy server. That lesson cost a friend of mine weeks of work, she eventually reimplemented the site in pure PHP and greatly regrets not doing it sooner. "

Łukasz Serwatka

Friday 05 November 2004 1:45:44 am

It has change a lot form January ...

Few important things decide about speed of eZ publish

1. Hosting
2. Scale of website
3. Good template programming (right use of {cache-blocks})

Version 3.4 is faster then 3.3.

I ve timings about 0.1 - 0.25 s on dual Xeon (2.4 GHz) CPU and 512 MB RAM (DELL PowerEdge) with Truck MMCache Accelerator and eZ cache enabled so as u see this is a very good result. If u have a good hosting u can sleep well ;)

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Minghui Yu

Friday 05 November 2004 2:07:48 am

Dual Xeons box, your server is better than many (dedicated server) webmasters, let along those shared hosting guys :) Mine is Celeron 2.4G

K259

Friday 05 November 2004 2:30:29 am

We've run eZ publish since 3.0 and have had a lot of problems with the versions from 3.0 and up to 3.4.1.

eZ publish is very complex. Compared to other CMS, the number og sql-queries running to list, create, update and delete content are huge in eZ publish. From 3.4.1-> some of the most heavy and not very well optimized queries have been changed and the performance are now much better. Indexing in versions from 3.4 is not beeing updated anymore when content is published, so the speed of publishing has increased too(and this will no longer make the frontend hang), but there are still some cachingproblems which can give a little headache (the ez team are working on this).

If you turn on debug, you'll see the number of queries running. I think this can be a good start to check out, also to see how this system is designed and works. Or..you can do a search in google and check out other systems running eZ publish and test the speed of these sites.

It's important to read the recommandations at ez.no about what hardware you need, because if you have a lot of content and traffic, then you should have pretty good hardware too. I've seen a lot of eZ publish sites which run the CMS on too weak hardware, and they are slooow.

So, I recommend very good hardware, install ez publish version 3.4.2-> and you can do some testing to check if it fit your needs.

Łukasz Serwatka

Friday 05 November 2004 4:33:11 am

Access to the shell is also important, and nice administrator which help u configure your http server.

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Paul Forsyth

Friday 05 November 2004 6:32:26 am

Consider this site, ez.no. It runs on eZ 3.4.

paul

Minghui Yu

Friday 05 November 2004 12:38:21 pm

ez.no? I think its hardware & bandwidth are much better than most webmasters. :) Let along its technical team.

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