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Install HHVM, Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 - Make WordPress Fly

A guide to installing nginx and HHVM on Ubuntu 14.04
Installing HHVM and Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 is the next step in the “Make WordPress Fly” series. This tutorial assumes you have completed the prerequisites, read Part 1 and completed Part 2 of this guide. At this point you have a reasonably secure box with MariaDB installed and configured. In this (Part 3) of the “Make WordPress Fly” guide we will start out by preparing our system for Nginx. The first step is to reconnect to your VM via SSH.

Configure Nginx/HHVM for WP - Making WordPress Fly

How to configure nginx and HHVM for use with wordpress on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
The next step in the tutorial “Making WordPress Fly” is to configure Nginx/HHVM and install WordPress. This step has two options, configuring for single site (this article) or configuring for multisite. This tutorial will assume that you have completed the prerequisites and read the introduction (part one). It will also that you have completed both parts two and three. We will also assume that you have an Ubuntu VPS. If you don’t, you can get one at Vultr.

HHVM, MariaDB and Nginx Make WordPress Fly - Intro

Introduction to a series on how to deploy a seriously fast server stack for WordPress.
HHVM, MariaDB and Nginx Make WordPress fly (seriously). This site is running on what may the fastest possible software stack for WordPress. That stack is HHVM, MariaDB 10.1, Nginx and Ubuntu 14.04. As you are browsing this site you may notice that it is graphically intensive. It also leverages many CPU hungry plugins that would make it take 6-10 seconds to load on even good shared hosting. With this aforementioned software stack pages up to 5MB on this site still load in under a second, end-user pipe permitting.