Re: [PHP] RE: Reaching the PHP mailing list owners

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 07:29 -0700, John Moss wrote:
Thank you, Daniel Brown, Richard Buskirk, Robert Cummings, David Giragosian
~ and anyone else who may have jumped in to my message within the last
minute or two, trying to help me.

Below is the message I was writing to ask someone (who I didn't know) just
how to participate in a mailing list. I've never done this - but it seems
all I had to do was send a message to this address. Strange. For me, strange
indeed. But - I am appreciative of the concept and a little bewildered by
the options that seem to be available...

OK - stupidity aside - I have a real question and don't know how to find an
answer. I write html, have for years. I have many web sites, and lately have
run aground trying to determine how my competition is able to load pages
exceedingly fast. It appears the site uses php, and crosslinks to pages
within the site load blindingly fast. There does not appear to be frames
involved, but the tables that contain the web page bracket a display area in
the center of each page that makes the site appear to be frame oriented. My
question: how is php able to load this page so quickly? I realize that I
might not be permitted to show a page (provide a URL) as an illustration of
my point - I am certainly not advertising anything. The site in question
belongs to a volunteer fire department, and I am donating my time trying to
create a comparable page for my own volunteer fire department. I just can't
seem to figure out what this php is all about and how it might help load a
page so fast.

PHP is merely an interpreter. The speed of any page to load in a browser
depends on a number of factors. Four of the most important factors are
the following:

1. what is being loaded? How much programming is necessary to
achieve the outcome.

2. How fast is the server hardware that handles the processing.

3. How good is the connection to the remote server. This includes
both bandwidth and latency (latency being the round trip time
to make a request of any kind for the server).

4. How well did the programmer implement the functionality
needed. It's one thing to have a heavy load of processing,
it's another to use bad algorthms that bog down the server.

Cheers,
Rob.
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