HOW TO: speed up your pligg site?

[sadegazoz]

can everyone add the methods they use for a faster pligg site with references, so newbies can learn and find things easily and dont ask same things again and again like me maybe this HW TO topics can be good references.

question>> How to speed up pligg?
lets list all of the clear answers and play it like tennis please add new proved methods and list all of them together.


1- enabling gzip mod for js files
>>>> Gzip Technique That Boosted my load times >>>> htaccess method
>>>> gzip compresion on js files >>> admin

2- adding link_status column in the pligg_links table from your phpmyadmin panel >>>>> A tip to speed up Pligg

3- try dedicated servers instead of shared ones if you have more than 100 or more visitor traffic in a day. >>>>
Site loads extremely slow!

4- optimize your logo and other images and icons on your page. >>>> /templates/YOUR TEMPLATES NAME/images




ok please add yours with a link or with a clear explanation...
thanks for participating

[fingerprn]

Experiment with a new webhost. I was using a virtual private server (VPS) that should have loaded my pages very quickly; however, each page was loading at 6-8 seconds. I got fed up and switched to a shared hosting package with a new webhost. Now my pages load 3-4 seconds. Please understand, the problem was not with having a VPS (I experimented with another VPS and got the same 3-4 seconds), the problem was with my webhost and the way it handled connections. Once my traffic count goes up I'll switch back to a different VPS.

[hotsitez]

Well I have our site on a dedicated server (Intel Pentium "D" 3.2Ghz, 4 meg ram, yada-yadda), load times are fine, BUT many talk of load times being the problem, and I think the real issue is Page Size - My sites page size is 108k, but loads very fast. and NO that is just the code part of the pligg page, before graphics - so lets not speak of graphics. Obviously we have some issues, but I was wondering how many of you may also be having the same problem??

Any suggestions to cleaning out the page size?