Chris Gilligan Web Developer, Information Architect, Web Server Administrator, Media Producer web • video • print chris@chrisgilligan.net chrisgilligan.com I design and produce information and communication media for university, corporate, small business, manufacturing and non-profit clients: web sites Information architecture and design for open source content management systems Front-end UI design, HTML, PHP, LESS Linux Apache/Nginx […]
Search results for "high traffic wordpress server tuning"
Fail2Ban Regex for RedHat, Fedora, CentOS and Amazon Linux 2013
…Varnish reverse proxies that interact with an Apache or NginX app server, and that app server connects to the database cohort. The only publicly-accessible servers would be the web proxies…. (Search hits: 9 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 384.56)
APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments
…the neighborhood of 10-30GB apc.shm_size if you attempt to configure a single APC cache for the entire server. My web hosting server is for a small number of personal clients,… (Search hits: 7 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 2 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 363.2)
Punk Rock Music Community
…the baddies installing monitoring and administration tools tuning Apache and MySQL for high traffic integrating APC PHP Cache to speed up web pages and provide better concurrency Loud Fast Rules…. (Search hits: 8 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 341.83)
WordPress Fail2Ban RegEx for RedHat, CentOS, Amazon Linux
VacantServer WordPress sites are getting hammered with bad logins and probes. We’ve implemented a plugin to log failed login attempts to syslog, and a Fail2Ban filter for the same. If you run these on RedHat, you’ll need some additional configuration info… here it is: WordPress login failure regex (error_log): ^%(__prefix_line)sAuthentication failure for .* from <HOST>$ […]
Farm to Table Restaurant Website
…to replace image-based text with CSS styled text, integrated WordPress navigation, and then added a few WordPress plugins. Constant Contact API for automated newsletter signup Simple Facebook Connect for Facebook… (Search hits: 7 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 299.1)
Web Servers
Portable Wifi Hotspot Rental Site
…maintained, self-hosted MacMini server running unoptimized WordPress installs. Trawire website I migrated the site to Amazon Web Services, where it now can handle traffic spikes and can be scaled and… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 170.92)
TEDx Event Website
I’m very excited to help out with Chattanooga’s premier TEDx event: TEDxChattanooga. TEDxChattanooga website For this site, I chose a responsive Bootstrap 3 SASS WordPress theme, originally developed for TEDxToronto…. (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 170.92)
Social Media — Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and Sharing
…not to mention the incoming links they provide, and the potential of exponential viral traffic. Add to this the need for regular blogging (on your site and other platforms) and… (Search hits: 4 in body, 0 in title, 0 in categories, 0 in tags, 0 in other taxonomies, 0 in comments. Score: 170.92)