Today, after upgrade to MT 2.65 worked fine I took the time to tune the whole MT installation I setup in June for the future of a 40000 visitors/month site:

technical changes

• installed MTFastInclude
• installed MTMod by Sean Wilson to get full control over index template rebuilds – a really hot mod – and with a version control like CVS I am not really frigthened by such code-patches… the MT upgrade to version 3.0 will be fun anyhow
• used already installed MTOptimizeHTML more

semantic and template changes

• macros included inside MTEntries loop (oops) – moved outside, even cache-hits take their cpu, don't they?
• rebuild only 1 php file for recent comments and trackbacks, thereby ignore and leave old counters for other index/category files
• move blogroll with favorites from blogroll, technorati-index and recent comments/trackbacks and of course the outside-world with separate RSS aggregation into separate PHP includefiles that are rebuilt only for new entries, not comments as before
• build category-index common PHPs to be included in different locale category php files (thereby looping over all entries of a category only once)

the amazing results

• rebuilding category archives works from the browser again – no premature end of script (internal server error 500) problems anymore (was a timeout before actually)
• saving disk space for having only 1 large category-common file per category and different locale-specific "head-files" (no redundance)
• use MTOptimizeHTML to shrink category pages
• saving time and diskspace by rebuilding recent entries/comments/trackbacks only when they occur
• saving time and diskspace by rebuilding technorati index and recent changes from blogroll only for new entries
• and most important: adding comments takes 15-30 seconds with entry rebuild, not 3 or 4 minutes as it was before…

Now this is a success…

Oh – and by the way – found the Mod-Rewrite-Url problem yesterday aswell – ...