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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

SoccerNews.com is a high traffic WordPress site with over 600,000 unique visitors and over 2,000,000 page impressions per month. It is a content republisher and aggregator, presenting custom XML feeds for (what else?) soccer news from all over the world. The site has a very active user base, providing content in the forms of editorials and [...]

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APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments

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

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 [...]

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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

My Virtualmin CentOS 5.6 Virtual Private Server runs several virtual domains with PHP under FCGId using APC for opcode caching: Joomla, PHPbb, WordPress, etc . APC is somewhat challenging to configure properly with fcgid-enabled virtual domains, but it is quite helpful to optimize system resources and prevent traffic surges on one site from affecting overall [...]

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