Virtualmin now includes support for Nginx web server. I deploy many WordPress sites with W3 Total Cache and APC Alternative PHP Cache, so I was very interested to see how Nginx performance compares to Apache for WordPress, and whether APC and W3TC would play nice with Nginx. I prefer to install WordPress in public_html/wordpress for ease of development, compatibility with other scripts, etc. Accordingly, the suggested configuration is for WordPr… 19, 1, 1, 0 and 38.56
Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS
…d. A simple and inexpensive extension of this system is to add CloudFront CDN, the “beta users” path. For ultimate reliability and speed, I propose the “users” path: This will take most load off of the Virtualmin/Apache and Webmin/MySQL servers, because the user will be interacting only with CloudFront CDN and Varnish Caching Servers. Load Balancing The Load Balancing layer can be deployed separate from the current config… 5, 1, 0, 0 and 12.41
Automated WordPress Installation Via Custom Virtualmin Script Installer
WordPress (or any other script) can automatically install during Virtualmin > Create Virtual Server. Virtualmin automatically creates users, MySQL database, and installs WordPress in the public_html root, then gives a link to the WordPress Installer. You can even create a custom installer with a set of plugins and themes. To create a custom script installer with plugins and themes: Download http://wordpress.org/latest.zip & unzip add … 3, 1, 0, 0 and 8.87
How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId
irtualHost> You must “babysit” the configuration: use the APC monitor (apc.php) to see how many files are being cached, and how much memory (apc.shm_size) is needed to avoid fragmentation, which will cause the 500 errors. If fragmentation rises quickly to 100%, memory usage is full, and cache full count rises above 0, you will almost surely see “500″ errors. If WordPress is the only PHP script software package on the d… 3, 0, 1, 0 and 8.85
Social Media Integration
Facebook and Twitter are two very important social media platforms that can seriously improve the reach of your website content. Content Management Systems can be configured to automatically send new content to Facebook and Twitter via RSS feeds, with linkback to your website, which improves traffic. WordPress Sites $500 per site Install Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect plugins Optionally, add Facebook feed and fans, Facebook Comments &… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 5.74
APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments
APC cache does not work well in a virtual hosting environment unless PHP is running as FCGID, and every individual virtual host has a unique PHP.ini and a unique fcgiwrapper. This is not the case with many virtual hosting environments because the memory and CPU requirements are too great. I suggest using Virtualmin for a shared hosting environment with APC cache, because it does allow to set php.ini and fcgiwrapper for every individual virtual h… 2, 0, 1, 0 and 4.88
Résumé
…ct ESRI ARCWeb Google Postini spam/virus filter system administration, Google AdWords, GoogleMaps API CentOS, Ubuntu, Linux Apache web server, Windows NT & 2000 web server cPanel Web Host Manager web server administration Virtualmin | Webmin web host and server administration Websites See my current portfolio: http://chrisgilligan.com/portfolio/ Video The Krystal Company GrillCam originally conceived and edited for major athletic stadium p… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 1.77
Apache config for Worker MPM vs Prefork MPM
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 1.77
Professional Social Network
… is ready for heavy traffic and a worldwide user base. My role in this project was to configure the software and server stack. I chose CentOS 6 x64 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… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 1.77
-
How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId November 8, 2010 -
WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin) March 12, 2012 -
Organic Farm Website with Slideshows and Content Management November 13, 2009 -
Remote publishing to WordPress from Facebook via RSS July 25, 2011 -
Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS May 17, 2012
-
Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS May 17, 2012 -
Automated WordPress Installation Via Custom Virtualmin Script Installer May 17, 2012 -
Professional Social Network May 3, 2012 -
Punk Rock Music Community April 10, 2012 -
WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin) March 12, 2012
-
Chris Gilligan: I was having some issues with cacheable content no...
-
Chris Gilligan: NVM the comment about slowness. I did some researc...
-
Chris Gilligan: I have a test version of this topography setup and...
-
Jones: Add me to the list of people that have been lookin...
-
Chris Gilligan: Yes, autoupdate works. Virtualmin does run nginx a...
a little bird told me…
Follow @gilligoon on Twitter





