Nginx and PHP-FPM for heavy load wordpress web server with high traffic 2000+ concurrent connections

Nginx and PHP-FPM for heavy load wordpress web server with high traffic 2000+ concurrent connections.

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To make it to read short I will not be describing all the time I lost during last half year trying to find out the “right settings” for the high traffic WordPress web server running I was responsible for, and this was on the top of my primary job, and that’s why it took so much time of blind testing and playing parameters with live production server, and as you understand I have no ability to make sharp actions and have long downtime, while having only 30-40 minutes per day. Anyway I found all needed information, tested everything, it works, I’m happy.

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Proper place for heavy load web server

Good question…  what is proper? The answer is – your budget will determined what is proper. My proposals will be suitable for Web Servers with PHP projects, using MySQL as a database and Nginx as a web server.

I do not speak here about hired dedicated servers or hostings. Only collocation with proper server or even your company/home server room with serious ISP channel will be reviewed here.

If you will go to collocation, in most cases you will be limited by corporate style rack servers, though there are might be some options how to avoid huge expenses.

If will build company/home server room, than the great number of possibilities how to save the money and make service reliable will become available for you.

The biggest pros of colocation are:
1) Security.
2) Monitoring.
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