I was doing some benchmarking and performance analyzing on servers running Wordpress and TYPO3 websites and the result was not than good actually. My setup could use quite a bit of website optimization to get the pages loaded faster.

So. How do one find extra performance, without buying new expensive hardware. One way could to experiment with caching options. The eAccelerator software is highly recommend for TYPO3 setup, so I did some testing with this and there was quite a bit of performance hidden here.

The installation was quite simple on my setup. I followed the installlation guide which was more or less a…