On a single page, without any plugins, menus, custom data, sidebar/widgets logic etc. Real sites will have 10-100x worse performance, so you might get 100k/day on the same machine.
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Re: 10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server
#72Wish there is an Amazon AMI with your config... Much better than doing things from scratch :)
Just run The Ubuntu ami ami-baba68d3 and follow the instructions, will only take 10 minutes :)
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#73What's the point of serving content from database by default if you have to set up all kinds of caches just in case your blogs happens to be on HN, Reddit, your local news paper, etc?
Shouldn't database be more like an add-on, not the core? Sure search is something that is hard to do with flat files, but everything else should just use files. It might be a good idea to save all the data also to DB, just in case you want to do some markup changes (which happen like once a year or something). But querying DB every time someone visits you blog? Crazy.
Also, when you don't need a database, backing up your whole site and/or transferring it to another host is a lot easier.
More complex sites than a normal personal blog is of course a different thing.
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#74The hallmark of Wordpress is ease of use. That's why you can spin up a blog right on their site, and they have a backend designed by Happy Cog. Wordpress is blog software for the technically illiterate. And then I take a look at this blog post that lists all the incantations necessary to scale Wordpress to reasonable scale and I wonder why anyone should do this. If you're setting up your own server, installing nginx,…
"Wordpress is blog software for the technically illiterate."
Is it, really? I see that most of the most popular blogs use Wordpress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_software
What blog platform would you recommend for the technically literate people?
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#75A blog is the most simple to scale application, just one step after the static content. The fact that wordpress has traditionally been not very scalable always used to puzzle me...
As a PHP dev with ~100 WP installs under my belt and plenty of customization, I think I'm qualified to say that WordPress isn't written to be scalable. It's actually kind of crap. Many of the things it does to make writing plugins easier for newbies are Very Bad Things in PHP. WordPress is a memory hog, to the point that foreaching over query data in the wrong way can cause you to hit the memory limit, even if just u…
IMHO the problem is that's old technology, who used to write free software N years ago is now busy doing startups ;) So the "next generation" of free software web stuff is missing in part.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing is this - configuring a server is one set of problems, building a decent CMS database/backend is another set of problems, and building a decent browser-based UX for content authoring is a third set. Very few people have all three of these skills, and it's fair to say that 2 and 3 are not yet solved problems. Rolling your own CMS for any non-trivial purpose is always something that sounds like a good idea un…
I think CMS engines like wordpress are great for semi technical people who are curious enough to set stuff up themselves. However whenever I've had a website to develop I've never seen the point of using one. If the website is going to be very simple the chances are it doesn't really need a full on CMS. All it needs is an HTML/CSS layout and some content that can come from either static HTML files, a few form handler…
Your forgetting that this favors your more than them.
People dont want to learn a new system, and they are confortable with wordpress.
There are millions of devs and designers also familiar with wordpress - which can mean they can leave you in an instant and get anyone else to make changes or add feature to the site easily.
Re: 10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server
#77> Download the nginx secure key to verify the package
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>cd /tmp/
>wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key
Verify a package with a key you got over http? Am I the only one who noticed this?
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#78Great article. Question: If you have Varnish running as a cache, should you really have the WP 3W Cache plugin running too? Seems redundant, but I'm not familiar this tech.
Varnish caches the actual HTTP requests, and speeds up static content substantially by removing the necessity to load up PHP. WP caching speeds up requests that spin up PHP by preventing them from making a connection to the MySQL Database. This is useful for requests that may peruse multiple blog posts, but load the exact same sidebar content by caching things like post counts, categories, tag clouds, etc.
Really? That's interesting. I assumed the WP caching was straight page output caching.
Re: 10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server
#79> echo “deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx” >> /etc/apt/sources.list
Shouldn't that be "oneiric" since you're using Ubuntu 11.10? Or does the nginx team compile everything statically so it works no matter which version you choose?
I'm also a bit puzzled with your decision to make PHP run as the "nginx" user. You probably did this to match the username that the nginx debs use (Ubuntu's default package uses www-data), but what's the benefit of matching users there? If you're going to change it anyway, why not make PHP run as "php", for example? Some might even say that running both PHP and nginx under the same user reduces security.
Re: 10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server
#80The hallmark of Wordpress is ease of use. That's why you can spin up a blog right on their site, and they have a backend designed by Happy Cog. Wordpress is blog software for the technically illiterate. And then I take a look at this blog post that lists all the incantations necessary to scale Wordpress to reasonable scale and I wonder why anyone should do this. If you're setting up your own server, installing nginx,…
> If you're setting up your own server, installing nginx, configuring PHP, and doing automated load testing, maybe you should also consider rolling your own software
This is actually very easy to do. I just did it. Maybe 1000 lines of code for everything, with proper caching and templating thrown in. The most difficult parts of a blog are the comments and search. If you use something like Disqus for comments and Google Custom Search for search, things become very easy to manage.