PHP version 4.5.37 Opcode/W3 Total

[andrea.juelich]

andrea.juelich

August 5, 2015 at 11:06 am

Hi,
so I have two questions: I am trying to get a better site speed and talked to my hoster who recommended to switch from PHP 4.5.37 to 4.5.37 with Opcode and APCu. I did this and suddenly my site including the backend was not accessible anylonger. My hoster tried for two days to sort this out but they had never had anything like this happen before and still don’t know why it is not working. They said they think it is either because of the theme or the plugins(or the combination of them) and told me to ask you if Virtue Premium is compatible with PHP 4.5.37 with Opcode and APCu.
My second question is regarding W3. I have tried to get it configured properly(as well as other cache plugins) but can’t seem to get it right.
For example, if I enable the minify option, it gives me a warning that auto ode is not possible, so I chose manual and added every js and css script that was possible to add(w/o the layout breaking). Then, when doing another pingdom test, my site was actually slower and there was even a red js warning from the minify. I played around with only using combine and not minify, still no change. Then I disabled minify completely and tried Autoptimize, which really speeds up once the page is cached, but when it is not cached, page load is lik 9-10 seconds! And it still breaks certain layouts.
So I am really at a loss on how to combine and minify the js and css. What would you suggest?

Thank you Ben&Hannah, and I agree regarding the post of Jacky: Your support is truly the best!