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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… 16, 1, 1, 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… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 1302.96

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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

…nfiguration statements can be in the following form (example from one of my servers): [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=mysql symbolic-links=0 innodb_file_per_table = 1 thread_concurrency = 8 query_cache_size = 64M query_cache_limit = 4M thread_cache_size = 8 myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M read_rnd_buffer_size = 8M read_buffer_size = 2M sort_buffer_size = 2M table_cache = 1600 table_definition_cache = 1600 max_a… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 1075.83

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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

…etc/init.d/varnish expects the variable $DAEMON_OPTS to be set from this # shell script fragment. # # # Maximum number of open files (for ulimit -n) NFILES=131072 # # Locked shared memory (for ulimit -l) # Default log size is 82MB + header MEMLOCK=82000 # # Maximum size of corefile (for ulimit -c). Default in Fedora is 0 # DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT=”unlimited” # # Set this to 1 to make init script reload try to switch vcl without restart. # To make t… 3, 0, 0, 0 and 717.23

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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_… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 478.14

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

By on August 26, 2011 in Web Server Performance Tuning

referrals provide the revenue stream. SoccerNews.com website I was contacted by the publisher after responding to a plea for assistance in a WordPress.org support forum. Though the site was running on a dedicated server with 8GB RAM, it was crashing frequently under load. The developer tried implementing APC Alternative PHP Cache and W3 Total Cache, but these measures turned out to be incompatible with some of the custom PHP code and the softwar… 0, 0, 1, 0 and 382.52

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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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APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments

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

…almin for a shared hosting environment with APC cache, because it does allow to set php.ini and fcgiwrapper for every individual virtual host, and so to set an individual configuration for APC per virtual server. However with 200+ virtual hosts all running PHP script packages, as is the case with a commodity shared hosting server, this will use a lot of memory, and you will need somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-30GB apc.shm_size if you attempt… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 179.3

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