Get a dedicated box with Nginx. That’ll go pretty far even before caching. It mostly depends on your traffic tho. Number of blogs matters a lot less, becasue I’ve seen a network with 10 blogs suck up a gig of RAM becasue of the hits it was getting.
This by no means will be a definitive answer, but I had some tips that were longer than the comments would allow. That high max execution time concerns me. The root of your problem probably has nothing to do with the number of connections to the DB and more to do with the amount of … Read more
This is really a server question and not particularly WordPress. You’re running into a MySQL server speed bottleneck at 1and1. Sorry, but they’re well known as a slow shared host, and for that reason I doubt their VPSs are any better. Caching and a CDN will only do so much for you. You need more … Read more
@Tal, In terms of performance an unmanaged VPS will be better than a managed one. A Managed VPS will almost always come with CPanel which is great for shared hosting and for hosting companies to easily manage your VPS for you. You can still install any of the Opcode caching tools (APC, eAccelerator, XCache, MemCached) … Read more
There’s a post here that’s very good about load optimization and performance: Steps to Optimize WordPress in Regard to Server Load? It might be a good idea to also utilize a CDN for a majority of your page requests. If you want performance you’ll have to minimize requests to your database and setup aggressive caching. … Read more
I think you don’t have your permissions set up correctly for /var/www Change the ownership of the folder. sudo chown -R **yourusername** /var/www
after going to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and even after changing and then i type the command then i get an error : Can you please help me? i am getting an error in the developer tools console when i am using web-sockets and so for that i need to enable web-sockets proxy.
Testing¹ reveals that Lightsail instances in fact are EC2 instances, from the t2 class of burstable instances. EC2, of course, has many more instance families and classes other than the t2, almost all of which are more “powerful” (or better equipped for certain tasks) than these, but also much more expensive. But for meaningful comparisons, the 512 MiB … Read more