Re:Handling server load for the Raspberry Pi Zero launch
by pronoiac on Saturday November 28, 2015 @07:01PM
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Re 4: have you considered extending WP Super Cache? It may or may not be worth investigating. The static page generation script sounds brittle.
Re 5: I found that nginx was way better at static resources, like images, CSS, and super-cached HTML. I imagine you use CDNs for the first two, but being able to selectively bypass Wordpress for the last is something nginx can do but I think Apache can't.
Edit: on re-reading, it's also a downloads server and apt mirror? I'd definitely use nginx, probably as a reverse proxy for Apache, because fewer configuration changes are needed that way.
Re 5: I found that nginx was way better at static resources, like images, CSS, and super-cached HTML. I imagine you use CDNs for the first two, but being able to selectively bypass Wordpress for the last is something nginx can do but I think Apache can't.
Edit: on re-reading, it's also a downloads server and apt mirror? I'd definitely use nginx, probably as a reverse proxy for Apache, because fewer configuration changes are needed that way.