Fastest WordPress stack?

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  • Moderator Yui

    (@fierevere)

    永子

    It is not actually a WordPress question,
    usually people are happy with whatever their hosting has to offer.
    Otherwise The best Linux distribution is the one which is preferred by your Guru., which can be rephrased to – the better software stack is the one you have most experienced with.

    In the matter of performance, i can equally name various solutions, they are +-
    when benchmarked, but the difference will be not really significant and will vary per set up.

    PHP: 7.x, the higher version, the better, PHP8 can offer JIT for 64-bit, you can gain some more performance with it.
    OpCode caching – mandratory, enough size to fit WordPress and plugins, around 40-64 Mb per WP installation.
    Assets caching and webserver – Nginx, Nginx+Varnish, Nginx+FastCGI cache (as page cache) or Varnish for page cache, or Redis as page cache
    some may prefer lighttpd or you may try with Caddy, it will be fun to compare, i guess.

    PHP SAPI – PHP-FPM, or LSAPI with LiteSpeed webserver

    If you use LiteSpeed (commercial) it can beat nginx (with default setup), but will be equal with nginx if you are expert.

    Object Caching – Redis or Memcached. Redis preferred (at my opinion)

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Yui.

    Installing the fastest WordPress stack with these modules:

    • Cloudflare (fastest DNS service)
    • Ubuntu LTS
    • Nginx + FastCGI cache
    • PHP-FPM + OPcache
    • MySQL/MariaDB
    • Redis (for object cache)
    • UFW firewall (included w/ Ubuntu)
    • OpenSSL or Certbot/Lets Encrypt (if you use Cloudflare try OpenSSL… amazing time saver)
    • WP-CLI
    • Git (if you need it)
    • Composer (if you need it)
    yasuf21

    (@yasuf21)

    Its the same LEMP Nginx stack that WordOps and Webinoly setup automatic but only difference is that OpenSSL not included.

    why is OpenSSL useful more than Lets Encrypt free SSL certs?

    I do not use Git and Composer.

    I suggest anyone who loves LEMP stack (Nginx) cloud servers to try Mr. Till Kruss fantastic free plugins, Redis Cache and Nginx Cache.

    These are my reviews of his 2 plugins:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/best-and-free-wordpress-cache-plugin/
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/easiest-way-to-enable-disable-object-cache/

    Most of free LEMP scripts have already FastCGI cache and Redis installed already, but how to clear Nginx easily? How to disable/enable Redis easily? That is the solution that Mr. Till has solved in his free plugins.

    I have tried every cache plugin in 10 years, this is the most lightweight setup I can achieve after all my tests.

    why is OpenSSL useful more than Lets Encrypt free SSL certs?

    @yasuf21 because OpenSSL can expire after 10 years, but Lets Encrypt is only 3 months and you do not worry about renewal if using OpenSSL. The problem is self-signed SSL will have a browser warning, so you must use Cloudflare to proxy your server in case of using OpenSSL.

    WordOps and Webinoly will default Lets Encrypt. SlickStack will default OpenSSL (because they use Cloudflare) but you can customize every scripts.

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