o not have a solid security and load balancing strategy are subject to crippling traffic from the Internet’s millions of malicious and compromised servers and personal computers. Reconfigured Apache web server, PHP and MySQL to better utilize the server’s horsepower. Default configurations were limiting the number of concurrent user sessions the server could handle. Changed PHP to run as FastCGI (fcgid) and recompiled Apache to bette… 26, 3, 5, 0 and 47.4
Tuning Apache and MySQL for Best Performance in a Shared Virtual Hosting Environment
Web hosting has changed dramatically in the last few years. The majority of accounts are now running PHP scripts and MySQL, whereas in the past most accounts were only serving static HTML files. This presents challenges in security as well as performance tuning. It is impossible to predict whether a certain configuration will work properly for a given server, unless the hardware, software, accounts, network and traffic are identical to a previou… 17, 1, 0, 0 and 30.12
How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId
Joomla and PHPbb have code that is pre-optimized with hooks for APC, but WordPress requires a plugin called W3 Total Cache. First Things First Please read my posts about APC on commodity virtual hosting servers and Apache and MySQL performance tuning before you begin. If you are running your virtual servers under FCGId, then you should do so for all virtual servers on your machine. Why? Because then you do not need apache’s mod_php (php mod… 20, 0, 1, 0 and 29.13
Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS
I am creating a true load balancer topography for a WordPress hosting server, if it needs to scale up beyond what the current system can handle. Scaling Levels The current system is the “admin” path shown in the diagram, with no CDN or Load Balancing. It will handle a lot of traffic, but it is somewhat vulnerable to failure and overload. A simple and inexpensive extension of this system is to add CloudFront CDN, the “beta users… 15, 1, 0, 0 and 26.7
Joomla Content Management
the hood? Contact me and schedule a demo! Why Open Source? Wide development community, professional components and plugins Your site is portable: it is not tied to our system… it can be moved to any Linux | Apache | MySQL | PHP (LAMP) webserver or hosting company. Scalable: if your site outgrows a lesser hosting plan, upgrade to a more powerful plan, a dedicated server, or a Content Delivery Network Content Management System features … 19, 1, 0, 0 and 21.47
Web Hosting
Decades of experience hosting websites, from small local sites with only a few html pages, to high-traffic sites with thousands of users and pages. Dedicated Server Custom-built to your needs and specifications, hosted in a secure and speedy U.S. data center Amazon AWS Scalable to any level of traffic, using Amazon’s EC2 virtual servers, Load Balancing, RDS MySQL, S3 Storage, Cloudfront Cache, and more Virtual Private Server Slice… 9, 0, 0, 0 and 14.84
WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin)
location ^~ /blogs.dir/ { internal; root /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-content; } Adding APC Support for a Virtual Domain Because Virtualmin’s implementation of Nginx uses php-fastcgi, each virtual domain will load its own php.ini file, so you can add the APC directives to that file (/home/domainname/etc/php5/php.ini) Add the following to php.ini (adjust to your requirements) [APC] extension = apc.so apc.enabled = 1 apc.shm_segmen… 6, 0, 0, 0 and 7.66
Résumé
Chris Gilligan Information Architect, Web Server Administrator, Media Producer web • video • print chris [at] chrisgilligan [dot] net chrisgilligan.com I design and produce information and communication media for corporate, small business, manufacturing and non-profit clients: web sites Information architecture and design for open source content management systems Linux Apache MySQL PHP web server administration Postfix Dovecot Sendmail mail … 6, 0, 0, 0 and 7.21
Punk Rock Music Community
r this GIG, I soloed on… transferring the site from a WAMP development server to the live LAMP server configuring an active firewall to block 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. … 7, 0, 0, 0 and 7.1
Professional Social Network
…as the Linux foundation for the site, integrated the LAMP software stack with Virtualmin, and connected to AWS S3 backups and CloudFront content distribution network. Future-proofing is assured, for the point when traffic and load warrant scaling up to a Load Balancer and dedicated Amazon RDS database server. Using tools from RightScale and Amazon Web Services, scaling up to a serious web presence is simple and quickly accomplished. For more info… 5, 0, 0, 0 and 6.71
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