Hi Yarino,

Glad you’re finding success with your website. If I were you, I would get professional help at this point. Those tutorials only covers about 10% of the server setup. You’re left exposed and vulnerable with them.

To answer your question,

I wouldn’t go Reverse Proxy route. Nginx is perfectly capable of handling WordPress. What you need to do is optimize. I’m not gonna get into how. There are lots of tutorial out there.

Performance

Since you’re already using wp-rocket, you can configure rocket-nginx. It serves cached wp-rocket cached files to visitors without even touching WordPress or PHP. Resulting on massive performance boost. Most of your pages will be served as static html files to the browser. The plugin Autoptimize goes well with wp-rocket. I use that combination for caching.

I would also install Redis for database caching. There’s WordPress plugin for that too.

I would also enable PHP Opcache with file caching.

That should take care of the caching. This setup makes updating WordPress plugins a real pain. But it’s worth it.

I’ll also look into hosting database off the server. I use Amazon RDB for that. But that’s not required though.

Above setup will require you to set up real cron jobs for WordPress since WordPress won’t be touched 90% of the time.

I don’t know if you’re using a security plugin, but if you do, it probably eats up large part of your system resources. You should look in to minimizing usage of PHP when you can. And these security plugins doesn’t help with that. ModSecurity with UFW and Fail2Ban is the ideal solution for Security. You can add real-time malware scanning with Linux Malware Detect.

Hope this helps. My contact details are in the profile page if you want to reach me.

Hey friend!

That was a great answer by @vpsfix, and I’ll merely throw mine into this as well for good measure. I answered a similar question the other day, and it might make for a relevant read: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-many-page-views-per-day-can-a-server-with-1-gb-ram-can-take-with-3-5-mb-as-and-average-page-size?answer=45790

If I had to suggest an easy stack for Wordpress that I felt was most likely to make up for WP optimization issues, this would be my personal choice:

https://easyengine.io/

With that said, it’s just the best effort for an easy attempt. There are no guarantees that your website can even run as well as you hope on any stack or hardware, it is absolutely possible to modify Wordpress with plugins and themes in a way that simply cannot perform reasonably.

Jarland

Hi @vpsfix, @jarland ,

Thank you very much for your help with guidance and details about how to get things working!
I’ll look into the solutions you’ve provided closely.