Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

[krinlyc]

Hi

ever thought to change the webserver?

Here is an nice article http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/188124...erving-PHP

krinlyc

[Like Ra]

I was thinking about nginx... But the required amount of work is a bit scary. I still do not have time to republish all pages broken by @#$%^& photobucket.... And yes, I'm running php-fpm 😉

Bottom line - I agree with the article. Nginx + php-fpm is the way to set up a new web-site. Also, the last stable of mod_pagespeed supports Nginx.

As for the database, my choice is still MySQL, but if Oracle does not speed up, MariaSQL may move to the 1st place in a couple of years.

[Like Ra]

OTOH... I can play with Nginx on another port, right? 😉

[Like Ra]

I can't make Nginx work with PHP. It keeps ignoring the "root" variable and uses the directory that is not mentioned in any of the config files (built-in?). Two days wasted, still no luck.

[Like Ra]

Nginx does not communicate with PHP5-FPM the root directory. Actually, for some reasons (bugs?) the root directory cannot be set up for PHP files at all, no matter what.

[Like Ra]

OK, I gave up. Apache will stay.

[krinlyc]

wow so much trouble? I give it a try on a virtual machine...

I am on vacation till next year 😊

krinlyc

[Like Ra]

I wonder if it's a combination of Ubuntu, PHP5-FPM and Nginx. I've read that the most used platform for Nginx is CentOS. I tried to run it in parallel with Apache on port 81. According to various examples and documentation it should work, but this bloody #$%^ stuck on /etc/nginx/html root dir which even does not exist and not mentioned in any config files. I've found similar questions on the Internet and most of them are not answered.

[Like Ra]

The site was down for ~40 minutes due to emergency maintenance on the real server.

[Like Ra]

And here comes another frustration - I'm fed up with the current menu and the menu design. Also it's broken on mobile devices. Need to completely redo it. I have two options in mind: jQuery and pure CSS based.