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This fails to mention the most dramatic fix, which is to host it on NGINX rather than Apache.

by fowkswe 10y ago

NicoJuicy 10y ago
Not only that, but every time a page load happens. There is a cronjob that gets executed. You can seperate the cronjob by executing it by duration ( a real cronjob), instead of executing it every page load.
alexpatin 10y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. I wish people understood this better.
blakesterz 10y ago
Oh? How big of a difference does that make? I'm not even sure what to measure? I can host 100 WP sites that generate a total of 100000 hits in a day using Apache requires X RAM and X Cores but using NGINX I could do that with only X RAM and R Cores? Did you find something like that? I'd love to squeeze more out of what I have if I can do it with NGNIX.
- fowkswe 10y ago
  I don't have specifics like that, but I've noticed drastic improvements in page load time when I moved a site from Apache to NGINX. This post was the motivation: http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-day-on-wordpress-using-a-10-vps/ http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-da...
  - ohashi 10y ago
    Oh that's mine :) Glad it was a motivator. There are surely better configs out there now with a lot more resources behind them like easyengine.
SahAssar 10y ago
Nginx vs properly configured apache makes little difference on for a small-to-medium site. What makes a difference is fastcgi caching, it's an important difference.
- falcolas 10y ago
  Agreed. An overloaded WordPress site with a minimal 5 minute page cache can now handle a HN storm. Throw in a CDN for the static assets, disable commenting, and it could likely handle the front page of Reddit. Amazing how fast a site becomes when it's no longer recalculating every response.
  - benbristow 10y ago
    For commenting you can always use Disqus which would take the load off your database.
- Veratyr 10y ago
  What are your thoughts on https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-server-performance-comparison https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-s..., which seems to say otherwise? Likely configured wrong?
joaoperibeiro 10y ago
Good tip! Added to the post

This fails to mention the most dramatic fix, which is to host it on NGINX rather than Apache.

by fowkswe 10y ago

This fails to mention the most dramatic fix, which is to host it on NGINX rather than Apache.

Not only that, but every time a page load happens. There is a cronjob that gets executed. You can seperate the cronjob by executing it by duration ( a real cronjob), instead of executing it every page load.

alexpatin 10y ago

Thank you for mentioning this. I wish people understood this better.

blakesterz 10y ago

Oh? How big of a difference does that make? I'm not even sure what to measure? I can host 100 WP sites that generate a total of 100000 hits in a day using Apache requires X RAM and X Cores but using NGINX I could do that with only X RAM and R Cores? Did you find something like that? I'd love to squeeze more out of what I have if I can do it with NGNIX.

fowkswe 10y ago
I don't have specifics like that, but I've noticed drastic improvements in page load time when I moved a site from Apache to NGINX. This post was the motivation: http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-day-on-wordpress-using-a-10-vps/ http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-da...
- ohashi 10y ago
  Oh that's mine :) Glad it was a motivator. There are surely better configs out there now with a lot more resources behind them like easyengine.

SahAssar 10y ago

Nginx vs properly configured apache makes little difference on for a small-to-medium site. What makes a difference is fastcgi caching, it's an important difference.

falcolas 10y ago
Agreed. An overloaded WordPress site with a minimal 5 minute page cache can now handle a HN storm. Throw in a CDN for the static assets, disable commenting, and it could likely handle the front page of Reddit. Amazing how fast a site becomes when it's no longer recalculating every response.
- benbristow 10y ago
  For commenting you can always use Disqus which would take the load off your database.
Veratyr 10y ago
What are your thoughts on https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-server-performance-comparison https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-s..., which seems to say otherwise? Likely configured wrong?

joaoperibeiro 10y ago

Good tip! Added to the post