By zujkov
After years of cPanel hosting I have considered to setup my own server in DigitalOcean for my high-traffic WordPress (WooCommerce). I am getting tired of dealing with shared hosting companies.
Also I don’t want to pay $300/mo for WP Engine or whatever. Other dropshipping guys have said a cloud server is enough to handle my traffic is maybe $5 or $10 each month.
I used Cloudflare for my CDN but I know caching is going to be critical for my site.
I know that Nginx FastCGI cache is the most popular option. However I’m used to only WordPress caching plugins.
Just for my information (not sure I will be able to do it alone) I would like to understand what is required if I will do:
- setup new DO cloud server
- install Nginx, PHP, MySQL etc
- activate FastCGI cache
- how to manage the settings in the future
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Hi there,
Indeed WordPress + Nginx + FastCGI + Cloudflare sounds like a very solid setup.
I could suggest the following approach:
- To install WordPress with Nginx you can follow the steps here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-20-04
- After that to enable FastCGI, you can follow the steps here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-fastcgi-caching-with-nginx-on-your-vps
On another note, make sure to also tweak your MySQL service for optimal performance by following the steps here:
Let me know how it goes! Regards, Bobby
Configura seu servidor com WordOps. Ele tem FastCGI e Redis integrados. É uma excelente opção para lojas com alto tráfego.
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