Run WordPress+W3TotalCache with LEMP (Nginx, PHP-FPM+APC and MySQL) stack on CentOS 6 VPS for maximum performance

How to Install WordPress+W3TotalCache with LEMP (Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL) stack on CentOS 6 VPSNginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP web-server which unlike some other web-servers, it does not rely on threaded handling of the requests but instead it uses a much more scalable event driven (asynchronous) architecture.

This uses a very small and predictable amount of memory under heavy load. Nginx in combination with the simple and very robust FastCGI Process Manager for PHP (PHP-FPM) and the world most popular database server MySQL can give you a lot of power and performance while still using a small memory footprint.

The following article is all about how to install and configure LEMP Stack on a CentOS 6 VPS and host blazing fast WordPress powered web applications.

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Install Vanilla Forums on Debian Squeeze with Nginx

Vanilla is an open-source multi-lingual forum software written in PHP. It’s easy to install and use, with lot’s of addons and themes to choose from. If you are looking for a super fast and ridiculously easy to use forum software that can seamlessly integrate with your existing website on your Linux Virtual Server then Vanilla is just what you are looking for.

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How to install and configure LEMP (Nginx, MySQL and PHP) server on a Debian 6 (squeeze) VPS

Nginx MySQL and PHP on DebianVPSNginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server which unlike his ‘friends’, it does not rely on threaded handling of the requests but instead it uses a much more scalable event driven (asynchronous) architecture. This uses a very small and predictable amount of memory under heavy load. Nginx in combination with the simple and very robust FastCGI Process Manager for PHP (PHP-FPM) and the world most popular database server MySQL can give you a lot of power and performance while still using a small memory footprint.

The following article looks at how to install and configure this stack on one of our Debian based VPSes.

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