In the wake of the Heartbleed bug, I've decided to put forth the effort to get an SSL certificate for my website. After carefully checking to make sure my server was updated to a newer version of OpenSSL I started searching for free or low cost certificates. I found free …

Using the cached template loader instead of the default loader seems to have made a huge difference in the page load times especially on the blog. To enable the cached template loader change your template loaders to:

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    ('django.template.loaders.cached.Loader', (
        'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
        'django.template …

I'm seeing over one second page loads from Django and Gunicorn. I've taken a look with django debug toolbar but that isn't telling me what's taking all the time, just the main html page is taking a long time.

sudo apt-get install memcached libmemcached-dev
sudo pip install pylibmc

Add to settings.py

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache',
        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
     }
}

Add to middleware

'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware',
...
'django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware',

It seems that just adding the cache middleware does not actually cause anything to be cached. Django-CMS handles its own caching. This is great except that the default cache time for a page is 60 seconds. Which is odd since Django-CMS seems to store version information in the cache to …