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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by SahAssar on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:59PM (#13525892)
Nginx vs properly configured apache makes little difference on for a small-to-medium site. What makes a difference is fastcgi caching, it's an important difference.
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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by Veratyr on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:54AM (#13529480)
What are your thoughts on https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-s..., which seems to say otherwise? Likely configured wrong?
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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by falcolas on Monday January 30, 2017 @07:30PM (#13526392)
Agreed. An overloaded WordPress site with a minimal 5 minute page cache can now handle a HN storm. Throw in a CDN for the static assets, disable commenting, and it could likely handle the front page of Reddit.

Amazing how fast a site becomes when it's no longer recalculating every response.

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Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps by benbristow on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:15AM (#13540100)
For commenting you can always use Disqus which would take the load off your database.
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