By ricmedia
Hi there, I am very impressed with the security and speed of the WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04 OneClick install, fastest WP I have ever used and scores over 90 on PageSpeed. I am just wondering exactly the customization’s to Ubuntu, MySQL, Apache etc that DigitalOcean does to make it run so fast? I picked up a few things in MySQL cnf’s but not sure that would increase the speed that much?
Cheers, Richie
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Hello, Richie
You can optimize your database via phpMyAdmin or via ssh. You can also use a WordPress plugin to do that, this one is really good: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/
Also you can mysqltunner (it’s a really cool script written in perl). It will check your current mysql values and it will suggest some values to adjust in the my.cnf file:
Download the MySQLTuner script:
wget http://mysqltuner.com/mysqltuner.pl
Change the scripts permissions to be executable:
chmod +x mysqltuner.pl
```Run the mysqltuner.pl script. You will be prompted to enter in your MySQL administrative login and password:
./mysqltuner.pl
You should see some recommended values that you can tweak in the my.cmf file. This should help you optimize your database a bit.
Let me know if you have some questions.
Alex
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