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Install php7, nginx, MariaDB and WordPress on Debian Jessie for a lean LEMP stack to serve your web site. I am migrating my Digital Ocean VPS from the smallest droplet to the 1 GB droplet. I currently run Apache, PHP, MySQL 5.5 and Varnish 3.x on this VPS droplet. … I'm curious
The Varnish Cache Firewall is a Web Application Firewall that can protect WordPress. It is an open source project by comotion to integrate the modsecurity web application firewall into Varnish and will help protect WordpPress against SQL injections, XSS attacks and other web attacks. This Varnish firewall tutorial is specifically … I'm curious
ConfigServer Firewall is a very popular and powerful firewall solution for your VPS, decdicated or home media server. CSF contains a plethora of options for securing your system.
All of the CSF options can be overwhelming so in this guide I walk you through how the ConfigServer Firewall is configured … I'm curious
Redis-server is a caching system that speeds up WordPress using object cache. Benchmarks show ridiculous speed increases with the PECL Redis extension for PHP. I use Redis caching and Varnish caching for this site and have found it to be the best combination on my 512 MB Digital Ocean droplet … I'm curious
Varnish is the rock solid reverse proxy. It's a web accelerator that serves your web pages as static content instead of serving PHP pages. Varnish also has a firewall component thanks to some vmods which have been integrated by comotion to provide a Web Application Firewall to protect your WordPress … I'm curious
Varnish is a refresh proxy that serves your WordPress lightning fast. Varnish will cache your WordPress site as compiled html pages so users avoid making PHP requests from the web server (Apache2 and nginx). It is very simple to set up WordPress Varnish cache on your VPS or dedicated server.… I'm curious
Varnish a reverse proxy which gives you a real speed boost to WordPress. Running Varnish on this web server means I get a second load time, without Varnish the page load time would be 3+ seconds due to the slowness of PHP and all the WordPress plugins I use. Luckily, … I'm curious