Setting up the ideal WordPress Web Server: from zero to hero!

OR: Taking care of the bigger pains of a default WordPress installation.

A presentation slides about optimizing your WordPress website and your webserver this way, so it becames a blazing fast stack. Ways of speeding up WordPress and a few other performance-related things.

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1. Setting up the ideal
   WordPress Web Server:
   from zero to hero!
   OR: Taking care of the bigger pains
   of a default WordPress installation.
   George Gkouvousis,
   8web Interactive
   

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2. GEORGE GKOUVOUSIS
   George Gkouvousis
   @ggloveswp
   gg@8web.gr
   www.8web.gr
   • Technical Analyst (ICT) degree / DevOps engineer
   • Coordinating WordPress projects at 8web
   • Scaling more than 100 WordPress Installations per year
   • Optimizing a hundred more
   

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3. PRESENTATION’S INFORMATION
   CHAPTER 3
   Applying
   Solutions
   CHAPTER 2
   Understanding &
   Analyzing needs
   CHAPTER 1
   Common
   Stack problems
   Assumptions:
   • LAMP/LNMP stack installed
   • Sysadmin experience level
   

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4. • ENVIRONMENT
   RESTRICTIONS
   • RESOURCES
   RESTRICTIONS
   • OVERSELLING FACTOR
   RESOURCES LEVEL
   • OPTIMUM SOFTWARE
   NOT APPLIED
   • NOT ACTIVELY
   MAINTAINED
   TECHNOLOGY LEVEL
   1. COMMON STACK PROBLEMS
   CMS-LEVEL ISSUES
   • PHP BOTTLENECK
   • MySQL BOTTLENECKS
   

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5. 2. UNDERSTANDING NEEDS
   1. You type mydomain.com into the address bar of your browser.
   2. The browser checks the cache for a DNS record to find the corresponding IP address of it
   3. Browser initiates a TCP connection with the server.
   4. The browser sends an HTTP request to the web server.
   5. The server handles the request and sends back a response.
   6. The server sends out an HTTP response and the browser displays the HTML output.
   WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CALL A WordPress WEBSITE URL ?
   

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6. 2. ANALYZING NEEDS
   ZERO STATE
   

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7. 2. ANALYZING NEEDS
   !! WordPress executes hundreds of queries for every URL visit !!
   

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8. 2. UNDERSTANDING NEEDS
   a FASTER RESPONSE means:
   • Faster loading speed
   • Better User Experience
   • Better Rankings
   • Less Resources
   • Happier Visitors
   • Happier Webmaster J
   GOLDEN rule: THE FASTER, THE BETTER
   ACTUAL NEED = FASTER RESPONSES
   

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9. 3. APPLYING SOLUTIONS
   

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10. 3. APPLYING SOLUTIONS
    APPLY HTTP CACHE & AVOID REGENERATES
    PRIORITY: SERVER-LAYER SOLUTIONS
    SECONDARY OPTION: PLUGINS
    PAIN #1 > PHP
    APPLY OBJECT CACHE & AVOID MySQL
    LOAD FOR IDENTICAL QUERIES
    PRIORITY: PERSISTENT CACHE
    PAIN #2 > DATABASE
    FASTER WEB SERVER (NGINX)
    LATEST PHP VERSION + OPCACHE
    UP-TO-DATE MySQL VERSION
    HTTP/2 PROTOCOL
    DOM IMPROVEMENT
    EXTRA SIDE-IMPROVEMENTS
    

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11. George Gkouvousis,
    8web Interactive
    Questions?
    Thank you for attending!
    Slides/Questions/Info:
    ggloveswp
    georgegkouvousis www.8web.gr
    gg@8web.gr
    

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