I moved my WordPress blog to a VPS from DigitalOcean and I wanted to have a local version of my VPS for testing. This guide will teach you how to install an Ubuntu server as a virtual machine using VirtualBox on a mac. To prepare you will need to download 2 files: The VirtualBox virtual …
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If you are running WordPress on a VPS or dedicated server, a quick way to optimize performance is to install a php opcode cache. To understand why, you need to first understand how php processes a request. A php request goes through the following steps: Read Parse Compile Execute Output For every WordPress page requested, …
Here are some optimization techniques to optimize your WordPress site for Google Page Speed 1.10.2, Yahoo YSlow 2.1.0, and Zoompf. I installed a completely new WordPress 3.1 site with no plugins and using the default Twenty Ten theme. Here are the relevant scores on a fresh install: Test Score Page Speed 87 YSlow 93 Zoompf …
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If you are running WordPress on a VPS or dedicated server, you may want to install the nginx HTTP server to act as a proxy cache for WordPress. This is a guide for building nginx from source so that 2 modules can be added. The first module allows purging content from the proxy cache and the second …
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