Nginx, PHP, Wordpress, VirtualBox

[Steve Holdoway]

On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 15:40 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Dunno if anyone's running anything similar.  I recently shifted to Nginx 
> from Cherokee - and in so doing I setup a virtual server using 
> VirtualBox to run it in.  My primary use is for serving a pair of 
> Wordpress sites.
> 
> This is not (currently) a high-traffic server - but I do want it to run 
> well regardless.  My current configuration for the virtual hardware is 1 
> CPU and 1G RAM.  Nginx (obviously) is installed, as is php-fpm.  Mysql 
> is running on the host - both host & guest are Ubuntu.
> 
> Generally, of that 1G I see half in-use, a quarter cached, and a quarter 
> free.  So my first reaction is I don't THINK I'm starving the VM for RAM 
> - but maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> I generally don't seeing anything actively running except for php during 
> a request - which hits 25% usage.
> 
> Any suggestions for modifying my virtual or nginx config?  Or do I need 
> to focus on Wordpress caching?

You don't say what the problem is, but if it's performance, look at:

1. Host database config
2. PHP config - memory use
3. Add an opcode cacher - APC seems to work best on php-fpm
4. Nginx config - compression, expiry headers, fpm resources.

TBH I feel that WP caching options are for those without the ability to
to the job properly - ie cannot tune their servers.

...but it all sounds ok to me TBH. I run pure nginx servers on KVM VPSes
with 128MB - and they only use half of that.

hth,

Steve

-- 
Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MIITP 
http://www.greengecko.co.nz
Skype: sholdowa
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 6189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/attachments/20130111/b8a1a320/attachment.bin>