By gbertb
Can someone point me to any guides to setting up a rock solid nginx + varnish + wordpress with digital ocean that can withstand over 10k hits a day.
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This question was answered by @hunky:
Mine works fine with Apache and WordPress’s own caching plug in called W3TC…
512MB droplet running zPanel on CentOS 6.5 x32 along with 512MB swap…
Though I find a 1GB droplet would have been better since I am right on the edge of resource usage but due to financial constrain I am trying my level best to keep it in 512MB plan…
So far so good, its been close to 4 months, not a single problem… Fingers crossed :P
Load primarily depends on different plug ins / themes of WordPress you are using, some translate to smooth operation, some turns out to be resource hogger !!
This series also covers a production wordpress deploy which should be set up for higher load and also allow you to see monitor the server activity to see how it handles the traffic: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/building-for-production-web-applications
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