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Sunday, December 10. 2006thinkbroadband.comFor those of you who know me you'll know I've been working on adslguide for a long time. It was written in ASP and hosted on windows using MS SQL for the backend - I've now managed to re-write it in PHP and is using MySQL for it's back end. Users seem happy about the change, with comments that it's running faster! The site is written using Symfony, using Doctrine for the OR/M and saw over 1,000,000 page hits in the first week, with only a few minor technical glitches.
Feel free to check it out at thinkbroadband.com - a great place to find out about the UK's ADSL and broadband market, but then... I would say that Trackbacks
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How do you find the rendering speed of symfony? I have seen it take 1.5 seconds for a page, much too slow.
Well, I've written a couple of sites in it now - mostly just personal sites for 'fun'. It's not the fastest framework there is, however I accept that downside as I think it makes up for it with features and power.
check out the loading speed of thinkbroadband, http://kilogr.am , and the large list of other apps listed here: http://www.symfony-project.com/trac/wiki/ApplicationsDevelopedWithSymfony You will not want to run symfony without a bytecache such as APC, eaccelerator etc. Also, don't base the loading speed on using the development controller - that is slow, it does a whole load of things that the production controller doesn't. Also, there's been quite a few improvements done to speed recently, and what with a version 1 release just around the corner, and a book about to hit the shelves, I think now is a good time for you to try again with Symfony. I suspect if you're seeing 1.5 second loading times something is wrong. |
