PHP-FPM 5.3 under Nginx
August 17th, 2010
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«« See previous post for getting nginx up and running. This post is about getting PHP running as a FastCGI.
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August 17th, 2010
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Speeding up my blog
Performance issues aren’t just for high traffic sites. I’m lucky if I get 50 visitors a day to this site, but by using scaling techniques popular with the big boys, I figured I could increase page load speeds, (good for visitors and good for SEO). If I could achieve this and use less resources, perhaps I could even save some money on my hosting bills. I currently run a 512MB VPS on Slicehost, and I’d rather not increase this right now.
With a few days off work, I decided to take the plunge and swap out some of the server tech powering this blog. From the bottom up, so to speak, this was as follows -
- Replace Apache with Nginx (below)
- Upgrade to PHP 5.3.3 and run as a FastCGI (next post)
- Upgrade to WordPress 3
- Deploy a CDN
- Add a Varnish cache for extra speed
I’ll go through my experience across a number of posts, starting with Nginx. I shan’t replicate any existing documentation; I’m just going to go through what I did and point you at the resources you’ll need.
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