New! SimplePie Accelerator 1.0 Released to Manufacturing

by Michael Shipley

July 12 2008 05:30 am | SimplePie

Does SimplePie seem to take years to update it’s cache? Then this free open source software is for you.

SimplePie Accelerator 1.0

SimplePie Accelerator uses space age technology to bring you unprecedented speed to your everyday household cache updating chores.

Example

  • Typical cache update time for 10 feeds: 13.722 seconds
  • Accelerated : 3.006 seconds

Demo

simplepie-accelerator-demo

Download

simplepie_accelerator.zip

Here is a list of the things SPA will do for you:

  1. Accelerate SimplePie cache updating by 3 times or more.

Actually that’s it. Just one thing. Do one thing and do it well, I always say. And if I ever do that I’ll let you know.

 

Requirements

In order to use SPA, your website must:

  • Run PHP5
  • Allow the PHP exec command.
  • Have WGET installed.
  • Be hosted on a Linux based server.

If your host doesn’t support these essential features and your looking for maximum server power I recommend my host: RapidVPS. Disclaimer: I make no money if you sign up with them. Ok I lied. And remember, with great power comes great responsibility. I wouldn’t recommend abusing the power of this server to create the world’s first SZBN (SimpleZombieBotNet) API like I.. I mean, like one unfairly prosecuted, totally innocent person I know did. A federal judge in Connecticut, who I cannot identify because of that stupid gag order, will agree with me.

For a more economical yet still very capable website hosting solution you can try SimplePie.org’s host, Dreamhost.

6 Responses to “New! SimplePie Accelerator 1.0 Released to Manufacturing”

  1. Chris on 18 Sep 2008 at 6:51 pm #

    has anyone tried this inside an environment like xampp ?

  2. Michael Shipley on 18 Sep 2008 at 9:02 pm #

    If you mean does it work in a Apache, MySQL, PHP environment then yes it does. It requires:

    * PHP5
    * PHP exec
    * WGET
    * Linux operating system

  3. Jonathan on 31 Dec 2008 at 5:00 pm #

    Is there a way to test if the accelerator is working/set-up correctly? (other than the page load time – looking for more concrete proof).

  4. Morteza on 31 Jan 2009 at 12:45 pm #

    Is there any way for Hosts that doesn’t support PHP exec?

  5. Pakdoz on 01 Jun 2009 at 9:29 am #

    Hi,
    how to make simplepie accelerator working together with newsblock?

  6. Jeremy on 22 Sep 2009 at 1:21 pm #

    I have wget installed and working but the accelerator script fails the test everytime. Any idea why this would be happening?

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