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.

Installing WordPress with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 is a fairly straightforward task. In this tutorial we will do over how to do it. This tutorial assumes you have completed the Getting Started with an Ubuntu VPS guide and have an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS (if not you can get one at vultr). It also assumes that you already have a LEMP stack setup (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, etcetera) or you are following the WordPress HHVM guide.

The best way to setup OpenVPN on Ubuntu, like many other things, is to script it. This way it’s easier to create uniform deployment across larger networks. So, this is how you setup OpenVPN on Ubuntu the easy way - this neat little script makes installing OpenVPN on an Ubuntu VPS simple: Go to your home directory: cd ~ Then create a file by running this command: cat > openvpn.sh #!

In this tutorial we will cover optimal MariaDB 10.1 setup for Ubuntu 14.04 on a VM with 2-4GB of RAM. This is part 2 of the “Make WordPress Fly” tutorial. You can find part 1 here. Part 1 covered the benefits of using HHVM, MariaDB, Nginx and Ubuntu 14.04 to run a WordPress website. In this section we’ll be digging in to MariaDB and the optimal configurations for it. This tutorial assumes you have a VM with at least 512MB of RAM, 1 Xeon Core, 10 GB HDD and Vanilla Ubuntu 14.

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.