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How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

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Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#41

> It’s mounted in a tmpfs-backed RAMDisk > Because even well-cached files still require filesystem-level permission checks, read cycles, and sometimes fragmentation reassembly. I'd assume tmpfs still requires filesystem-level permission checks, or am I mistaken?

I think they're saying that the metadata checks on cached files still have to go to disk. I would be surprised if that was consistently true, but I can't make any other sense out of it.

Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While WP is not my first choice, it's also not good to give binary answers as the only factual options. There will be lots strapi and astro or whatever preference/interpretation we have personally can't do.

It's always "in most cases". I simply don't see space for WordPress on green field sites anymore. If something is so small it does not require CMS - it's better to use pure HTML. Otherwise "in most cases" it's better to use headless CMS.

That's understandable, but diy not the default place of the majority.

Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#43

Pagespeed gives this man's site a 72: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-rickconlee-com/foj4... And my plain ol' wordpress an 83: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/http-egypt-urnash-com/a1r... My site's a WP that I started up in like 2012 and it's been running continuously ever since, it's sitting behind Apache, it's got a cache plugin, nothing special at all.

I can recommend the WP Super Cache plugin[0] - it can generate pre-gzipped static sites and then you can setup your webserver[1] to prefer those, or non-compressed static files and only when not in cache actually bother passing down the request into PHP.

Gives me an 97 and 88 respectively[2] on that pagespeed tool.

[0] https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

[1] https://github.com/simonrupf/docker-php-wp/blob/master/etc/n...

[2] https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bobcat-dssr-ch/0ziq... / https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-simon-rupf-net/auk5...

Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#44
It just says

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access rickconlee.com Why have I been blocked?

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. What can I do to resolve this?

You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

Cloudflare Ray ID: 98d88522ad55dbab Your IP: 2a02:3035:671:c0fa:cfc0:827c:68bc:ba8e Performance & security by Cloudflare

Thanks cloudflare!

Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity do you know why Cloudflare has blocked you? Browser integrity check, IP reputation, etc? I'm trying to have more lax settings for my static website, and would love to make sure it's as accessible as possible.

Likely country blocks in this case, can't have the mean Europeans read the precious content. Works fine with a US VPN (bad IP reputation), doesn't work with my german local provider (good IP reputation).

Same here. My German IP is blocked.

Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#46

Ironically, Cloudflare is preventing me from reading the site: Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access rickconlee.com

Out of curiosity do you know why Cloudflare has blocked you? Browser integrity check, IP reputation, etc? I'm trying to have more lax settings for my static website, and would love to make sure it's as accessible as possible.

For me it's just visiting the site from my phone with a very typical German network provider (o2). Just followed the hacker news link ...

Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#47

It just says Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access rickconlee.com Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. What can I do to resolve this? You…

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Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#49

Ironically, Cloudflare is preventing me from reading the site: Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access rickconlee.com

Out of curiosity do you know why Cloudflare has blocked you? Browser integrity check, IP reputation, etc? I'm trying to have more lax settings for my static website, and would love to make sure it's as accessible as possible.

I'm blocked on Firefox on Ubuntu 25.04, on a German residential FTTH line, and I'm also blocked with Firefox and Chrome on Android 15 over 5G.

Re: How to Run WordPress completely from RAM

#50

It just says Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access rickconlee.com Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. What can I do to resolve this? You…

I have also been blocked. We are probably in a country where the author has decided to block us on CloudFlare.
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