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High Performance Wordpress and Server - Part I - Server Setup

By: Kevin On: June 10, 2016

Posted In: Development Hosting Lemp Commander Linux nGinx Security Security Server Management Software Theme Development Ubuntu Updates Wordpress bash nano nginx shell shell scripting speed up the web web hosting wordpress performance

I have successfully managed to get around a 1 second load time on my Wordpress site, While getting 250 concurrent users over a 1 minute test period.  (Source: https://webpagetest.org/result/210128_Di26_15d11aa18013d1df9ebc867e1aa9c2f3/) This was done with a combination of items, stemming from the server install up to Wordpress theme development.  Here is how I did it, so maybe you can too. Server Setup Here we will start from the ground up.  Items you will need: VirtualBox, Ubuntu 16.04 64b Server ISO, Time My virtual machine is setup with 4G of RAM, using 2 CPU's, with 80G SSD, and a Bridged Networking adapter Boot to the ISO, and start the installation process.  Everything can be setup how you wish, however, I custom partitioned, as well as, only installed the… Read More