How to install WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 with an nginx webserever.
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.
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.
How to setup MariaDB 10.1 on Ubuntu 14.04, optimized for use with WordPress
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.
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.
Why and how this blog is moving from WordPress to hugo and github pages.
Hugo static blogs are awesome Migrating to Hugo It is 2019, enter the brave new world of serverless computing and static blogging. After years of using WordPress, and a few years without any updates this blog is in need of a refresh. When I originally created this blog I had servers (a whole web hosting company in fact). Now I just want to be able to create content and have a lightning fast website that is easy to maintain.