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Apache config for Worker MPM vs Prefork MPM

By on July 13, 2011 in Consulting, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

Some installations of Apache will have been compiled to work with either Prefork or Worker MPM, but most by default are compiled only to work with Prefork. Changing to Worker MPM may allow your server to handle much higher traffic, more user sessions, with less RAM use. Your site or server will not scale well if it is running Prefork MPM. Worker is a bit more difficult to set up properly, and has some restrictions regarding functionality of PHP… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 4363.17

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How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId

By on November 8, 2010 in Virtualmin, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

5.2 ;extension=fileinfo.so [APC] extension = apc.so apc.enabled = 1 apc.shm_segments = 1 apc.shm_size = 12M apc.optimization = 0 apc.num_files_hint = 512 apc.user_entries_hint = 1024 apc.ttl = 0 apc.user_ttl = 0 apc.gc_ttl = 600 apc.cache_by_default = 0 apc.filters = “-/home/username/public_html/apc/apc\.php$” apc.slam_defense = 0 apc.use_request_time = 1 apc.mmap_file_mask = /tmp/apc-accountname.XXXXXX ;OR apc.mmap_file_mask = /dev/zero apc.fil… 5, 0, 1, 0 and 2402.7

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Apache and MySql Performance Tuning for High Traffic WordPress Website on Cpanel

By on August 26, 2011 in Web Server Performance Tuning

there were inevitable JavaScript and PHP conflicts, but W3TC is very flexible and was able to handle the task. Suggested a scheduled, offsite backup strategy that would utilize existing resources, and eliminate the need for a 3rd-party backup solution that was causing more load issues and costing $45.00 per month. Now the site is stable and fast, and is ready for very high traffic. With World Cup Brazil coming up in 2014, the site will definitel… 6, 1, 3, 0 and 1840.86

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Tuning Apache and MySQL for Best Performance in a Shared Virtual Hosting Environment

By on August 22, 2011 in Consulting, Web Server Performance Tuning

…acket inspection (SPI) firewall & login failure daemon (LFD) for your server: ConfigServer Firewall is an excellent free firewall & lfd. This will help prevent brute force probes, port flooding, DDOS, etc. If you have 600 virtual hosts running on a server, it is very likely that the server is experiencing constant malicious exploits, especially if you are also running email servers on the same IP addresses. Tune Apache the Sane Way (Requi… 4, 0, 0, 0 and 1649.61

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WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin)

By on March 12, 2012 in Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

…djust to your requirements) [APC] extension = apc.so apc.enabled = 1 apc.shm_segments = 1 apc.shm_size = 12M apc.optimization = 0 apc.num_files_hint = 256 apc.user_entries_hint = 1024 apc.ttl = 0 apc.user_ttl = 0 apc.gc_ttl = 600 apc.cache_by_default = 0 apc.filters = “-/home/username/public_html/scripts-not-to-cache/.*,-/home/username/public_html/apc/.*” apc.slam_defense = 0 apc.use_request_time = 1 apc.mmap_file_mask = /tmp/apc.XXXXXX apc.file_… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 669.4

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Fail2Ban Regex for RedHat, Fedora, CentOS and Amazon Linux 2013

By on April 19, 2013 in Amazon Web Services, Portfolio

…egEx, nor log file location, is going to work for every distribution. Neither can Fail2Ban account for every change in log file location or structure from version to version. What worked for Centos 5.x may not work for CentOS 6.x; what worked in kernel 2.8 may be invalid in kernel 3.4. Also stated earlier, it is well worth the time to learn a little about RegEx. One vehicle to propel the admin far along the path is RegExr. Author Greg Skinner pro… 5, 0, 0, 0 and 525.96

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Varnish VCL and Config for WordPress with W3 Total Cache

By on August 14, 2012 in Amazon Web Services, Consulting, Content Management Systems, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

…VARNISH_THREAD_TIMEOUT} \ -u varnish -g varnish \ -S ${VARNISH_SECRET_FILE} \ -s ${VARNISH_STORAGE}” # Varnish VCL (/etc/varnish/wordpress-varnish3.vcl) backend origin { .host = “10.11.12.13″; .port = “80″; .connect_timeout = 60s; .first_byte_timeout = 60s; .between_bytes_timeout = 60s; } # sub vcl_recv { # only using one backend set req.backend = origin; # # set standard proxied ip header for getting original remote address set req.http.X-Forwar… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 430.34

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Install phpMyAdmin with SSL on CentOS, Amazon Linux, RedHat (Apache or NginX)

By on September 24, 2012 in Amazon Web Services, Consulting, Virtualmin

erver to your requirements and your environment. phpMyAdmin MySQL server dashboard Incoming search terms for the article: phpmyadmin require ip nginx phpmyadmin centos install and open phpmyadmin using ipaddress nginx centos 6 nginx secure phpmyadmin nginx ssl phpmyadmin ssl phpmyadmin phpmyadmin ssl phpmyadmin ssl centos phpmyadmin with ssl ssl conf client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/… 7, 1, 0, 0 and 430.33

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WordPress Fail2Ban RegEx for RedHat, CentOS, Amazon Linux

By on April 27, 2013 in Amazon Web Services, Consulting, Content Management Systems, Cpanel, PHP, Virtualmin, Wordpress

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):

Apache nohome regex (error_log):

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