Server Optimization

Introduction> Introduction # WordPress is a popular and powerful CMS (content management system) platform. Its popularity can bring unwanted attention in the form of malicious traffic specially targeted at a WordPress site.

Introduction> Introduction # Once your application is up and running in a cloud server environment, you may be wondering how you can improve your server environment to make the leap from “it works” to a full-fledged production environment.

Introducing Unicorn> Introducing Unicorn # If you are a Rails developer, you’ve probably heard of Unicorn, a HTTP server that can handle multiple requests concurrently. Unicorn uses forked processes to achieve concurrency.

Introduction> Introduction # Nginx> Nginx # Nginx is a fast and lightweight alternative to the sometimes overbearing Apache 2. However, Nginx just like any kind of server or software must be tuned to help attain optimal performance.

Introduction> Introduction # One of the easiest way of increasing the responsiveness of your server and guarding against out of memory errors in your applications is to add some swap space.

Introduction> Introduction # Mytop is an open source, command line tool used for monitoring MySQL performance. It was inspired by the Linux system monitoring tool named top and is similar to it in look and feel.

Prelude> Prelude # Nginx includes a FastCGI module which has directives for caching dynamic content that are served from the PHP backend. Setting this up removes the need for additional page caching solutions like reverse proxies (think Varnish) or application specific plugins.

What is Caching?> What is Caching? # Caching is a method of improving server performance by allowing commonly requested content to be temporarily stored in a way that allows for faster access.

An Article from Elastic> An Article from Elastic # Introduction> Introduction # Making sense of the millions of log lines your organization generates can be a daunting challenge. On one hand, these log lines provide a view into application performance, server performance metrics, and security.

Introduction> Introduction # PHP is a server side scripting language used by many popular CMS and blog platforms like WordPress and Drupal. It is also part of the popular LAMP and LEMP stacks.

Status: Deprecated> Status: Deprecated # This article covers a version of Ubuntu that is no longer supported. If you are currently operate a server running Ubuntu 12.04, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of Ubuntu: