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E-Commerce Setup Suggestions
I’m new to DigitalOcean and setting up my own servers. All my experience is from Windows IIS. Most of my sites are basic wordpress sites with no e-commerce.
I do have a friend I’m hosting a site for that has ecommerce. Are there anything I should do or not do in setting up the server for his ecommerce site? I have an SSL and all of our payment processing is done by 3rd party provider.
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Hello there and welcome.
Personally I use Nginx+php5-fpm instead of apache. It has a higher performance (especially for static content like images etc), can handle a lot of traffic and memory usage is really low in high traffic scenarios.
My clients use E-commerce and speed is an important element. I get loadtimes of 600ms on my wordpress e commerce websites.
(links for testing loadtime: http://loadimpact.com/ , http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ )
But it will take some time to get used to the configuration of nginx (lots of tutorials).
If you don’t want to take the leap, you can still improve performance with caching.
Plugins like WP-super cache or something similar. Keep in mind that you should only enable this when the site is ready (caching can be a pain in the ass when you are testing and editing the site).
If you are planning to deploy more sites, I would suggest platforms like IspConfig3 (lots of configuration options) or VestaCP (out of the box experience)
Does Vesta install everything for me or do I need to setup nginx, php, mysql, etc before I install it?