My symfony2/doctrine2 site is ready for production so I uploaded it to my shared (TSOHost) cloud server. They dont have APC activated and the site is super slow.
On my local env, pages take ~180ms to load with APC enabled and that doubles when I disable APC.
On the shared host the same pages take ~2 seconds to load and often hangs completely. My product listing page sometimes takes >30 seconds for the ajax request to load all the products!
It feels like doctrine is especially struggling.
My host can only suggest I move to a dedicated virtual server, which is obviously more expensive, but I dont want to do that unless I can be sure its going to resolve the problem.
Is this down to the lack of APC? Do I have any alternatives to APC?
My answer is:
http://slides.seld.be/?file=2011-10-20+High+Performance+Websites+with+Symfony2.html#21
Symfony2 is fast and lightweight but in heavy category.
I’ve always cache the forms because form generation takes a years(with APC on). Look at this presentation and find some clues.