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Optimal Wordpress Setup Using Varnish & ngx_pagespeed
Hi,
I was hoping to get some advice on the best solution for a wordpress site. The site itself is very niche based and seasonal so it doesn’t get a lot of traffic. At most, we’re looking at about 150 visitors per day. Most installations can handle this and this isn’t my issue.
My issue is that I cannot use a caching plugin and without caching speed is very drastically affected. The reason I can’t use a caching plugin is because I use an availability calendar on several pages. This calendar is ajax based and very often I find that it renders as -1 on the page. This is apparently a common issue when using caching plugins and ajax.
So, I need my pages to load fast and to deliver an optimized experience to my handful of site visitors.
My initial thoughts are:
- ubuntu
- nginx
- varnish
- APC (for opcode caching)
- ngx_pagespeed
I am looking at deploying the above without using any caching plugins. Can anyone see a downside to this? Is there a better solution that will deliver fast page loads and TTFB? Can I do this on a 1GB account without issues?
If anyone has tutorials on here that can guide me through the best setup, I would really appreciate it. I have followed quite a few in the last 2-3 days but always seem to have an issue when trying to compile nginx from source for ngx_pagespeed. I’m also uncertain on how to get varnish into the mix.
Appreciate any and all suggestions.
Regards
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