hardware requirements

[manes]

hi there,

i discovered s9y a few weeks ago as i was looking for a lean blogging software which i wanted to use on a home server.
the server is an old thinkpad x40 with 1.5gb ram and a intel pentium m. its running a debian stable with a very basic installation: apache2, php, postgresql and it is administrated via ssh.
the server is connected to the net via dyndns at a vdsl with upload 2.5mbit/s. static webpages are delivered in an acceptable time.
dynamic webpages need some more time, almost intolerable.
only few plugins: easy podcasting, syndication.
does anybody have a hint, how to make it smoother. do you think, the hardware is the limitating factor?
i know debian quite ok, but never had to do with php and databanks before.

greetings
manes

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Check out APC for PHP, it speeds up PHP by caching - and you might want to switch to sqlite or mysql, which is faster than postgresql and easier to tune with the mysql query cache...

HTH,
Garvin

[manes]

thank you for instantly answering!
ok, i'll try it with mysql and apc. guess it'll take me some time, but then i'll report.

greetings
manes

[LazyBadger]

does anybody have a hint, how to make it smoother.

As Garvin already said, you'll get better (and faster) proper results if you'll correctly configure all parts of your complex infractructure.
I, personally, don't think APC is first-step action, but totally agree with MySQL as the right backend (with non-default config). At least even on Celeron-700|ancient slow HDD I had reasonable good results with LAMP (no APC, but in my case increasing RAM and playing with mysqld settings had visible effect)