Typically, the plugin folder only needs to be writable by your user account, but this could potentially vary depending on what user your web server is running as. For example, most of my installs have the plugins folder set to 755, but this is because Apache is running as the same user as the owner … Read more
1) Try WordPress › WPDB Profiling « WordPress Plugins to see what is running all the queries. 2) Clearing post and page revisions will greatly reduce the size of a WP database – up to 90% in some cases – with a huge return in speed and lower server load. Run as SQL query in … Read more
AWS is good, but a bit hard to understand if you’ve never set up a server. You should take a look at http://rackspace.com for their cloud server package. It’s about $25 USD/month for a decent server. They also have a control panel for load balancing setup. I’ve hosted a bunch of WP sites on my … Read more
If you’re on OSX, look into MAMP. It’s developed with WordPress in mind and generally works without any further configuration. Just copy your files into the web root directory, set up an empty database, and install.
WordPress keeps crashing my server
So, I need to say that now is all ok. I can’t belive this :’) For about a month I asked a lot of people and nobody didn’t know what’s the problem. It was cause we had bad nginx config. Now nginx is turned off for a some time. Apache is ok. Thank to s_ha_dum, … Read more
Trouble getting wordpress working after moving servers
WordPress does not need Tomcat. All WordPress needs is… To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ Plus adequate RAM– 32MB for a single site, 64MB for Multisite. Many hosts these days provide much, much more than that by default. I … Read more
WordPress will use curl if available and it is first transport choice, that is preferable to other supported methods of performing HTTP requests. There is plenty written on merits of using curl and that’s not really specific to WordPress. From the top of my head I’ve read Requiring cURL in Your PHP Library recently.
Best practices for configuring a server?