Nginx, PHP, Wordpress, VirtualBox

[Steve Holdoway]

On 11/01/13 22:04, Jan-Philip Gehrcke wrote:
>> On 1/10/2013 3:49 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Not sure what you are referring to here. The premise is that caching 
> for WordPress is a must:
>
> I am running a WordPress site with nginx, php-fpm, and APC on a low 
> performance machine with two cores. Without caching, it is able to 
> serve about 5 page requests per second. At this request rate, php-fpm 
> constantly produces 100 % CPU load on both cores. The take-home 
> message is that WordPress is bloated and requires its resources. Maybe 
> this is still tunable in order to increase performance by a few or 
> even 100 percent. But this is not worth the effort, because with 
> enabled nginx fastcgi_cache the server easily answers thousands of 
> requests per second, i.e. exhibits several orders of magnitude more 
> performance.
>
> Some people are using a caching plugin for WordPress itself -- which 
> is a good solution when using a shared hosting platform without the 
> chance to change the web stack or change the web server configuration.
>
> Others implement caching below the web application level as I did. 
> This is a cleaner and probably faster solution. In any case, caching 
> for WordPress is a must.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jan-Philip
So you agree with me then...