Optimizing whmcs 6 performance

[TommyK]

Hi,

 

I am getting quite bad performance with WHMCS 6 compared to my old installation.

 

The problem is that I have changed server entirely, but php 5.6 alone should give a boost from 5.3. Now my clientarea.php is loading in 0.250s which is ~150ms more than my old installation.

 

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#php -v
PHP 5.6.9-0+deb8u1 (cli) (built: Jun  5 2015 11:03:27) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
   with the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection from ioncube24.com (unconfigured) v5.0.14, Copyright (c) 2002-2015, by ionCube Ltd.
   with Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies
---

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# nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.6.2
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# ab -n 1 [url]https://*******/clientarea.php[/url]
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1604373 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, [url]http://www.zeustech.net/[/url]
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, [url]http://www.apache.org/[/url]

Benchmarking ******* (be patient).....done


Server Software:        nginx/1.6.2
Server Hostname:        *******
Server Port:            443
SSL/TLS Protocol:       TLSv1.2,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,2048,256

Document Path:          /clientarea.php
Document Length:        8971 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   0.245 seconds
Complete requests:      1
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      9320 bytes
HTML transferred:       8971 bytes
Requests per second:    4.08 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       244.931 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       244.931 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          37.16 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
             min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        4    4   0.0      4       4
Processing:   241  241   0.0    241     241
Waiting:      236  236   0.0    236     236
Total:        245  245   0.0    245     245
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Anyone have any ideas on how to speed things up? How does your performance compare to ours?

[TommyK]

/cry

 

It hurts my soul to see this...

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[Serenade]

Having the same performance issues on mine. index.php (only 13.5kb in size) has a GET request of 800ms - 2.3s. Super frustrating. WHMCS has provided ZERO assistance in coming up with a solution. Other users are consistently seeing the same issues on several different servers: http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?104715-WHMCS-slowness-performance-problems

[zomex]

Hello,

 

Is this related to the WHMCS front-end template or WHMCS itself? It would be interesting to know if it's the new Six template that is causing the loading issues. It's a much heavier template than the previous default template.

[Serenade]

Hello,

 

Is this related to the WHMCS front-end template or WHMCS itself? It would be interesting to know if it's the new Six template that is causing the loading issues. It's a much heavier template than the previous default template.

 

I don't believe that's the issue. Using the same template from v5.3.2 which had an average GET request of 200ms for index.php, now takes 1.2s-2s on the same page.

[stormy]

Any more news on this front? I've finally upgraded from v5 to v6 and the performance hit is heart wrenching. The domainchecker load time has tripled (and yes, I've disabled the extra lookups, etc).