Since I’ve been doing some LAMP development lately, I thought this article might be interesting to share. Applications using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. Everyone from Google to Facebook is using LAMP as part of their system architecture. But often the server administrator has little control over the application itself because it’s written by someone else. This articles discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application’s performance. It focuses on steps you can take to optimize Apache and PHP. Read on: Tuning LAMP systems, Part 2: Optimizing Apache and PHP