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Plone slow? How to make a small Plone site go fast!

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This FAQ applies to: Any version.

One of the most overlooked features of Plone is the fact that you can make a simple Plone site go a lot faster without any complicated configuration. How? Just install CacheFu.

Just download and install CacheFu in Zope-only mode. Even if you don't have Apache or Squid in front, CacheFu makes a huge difference in Plone's performance. Low traffic sites will immediately experience much faster page-load times, even for logged-in users.

Of course, if you're getting a lot of site traffic, you'll want to invest some additional effort in configuring CacheFu more carefuly, along with a "proper" caching proxy server like Squid or Varnish. But a small site doesn't need to go to all this effort to get huge benefits from CacheFu.  You'll get a 5x (or more) speed up with zero configuration!

If you've got a small Plone site and you're not running CacheFu, go give it a whirl, you'll be amazed at how quickly you can make Plone fast!

by Jon Stahl — last modified August 17, 2008 - 20:22 All content is copyright Plone Foundation and the individual contributors.

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