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    • IRJI
      IRJ
      last edited by

      I also should mention that I used yui-compressor on js files.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @IRJ
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        @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

        @stacksofplates said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

        I've always found NGINX to be much lighter weight and performant than Apache.

        My website is ultra fast now. https://cloudsecuritylife.com

        Almost instant loading

        That does load fast!

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        • IRJI
          IRJ @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

          @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

          @stacksofplates said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

          I've always found NGINX to be much lighter weight and performant than Apache.

          My website is ultra fast now. https://cloudsecuritylife.com

          Almost instant loading

          That does load fast!

          I went from about 3-4 seconds load time to about 700ms in total. Nginx and nginx caching is most of the difference, but yui-compressor on all the js files helped some, too!

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @IRJ
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            @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

            @scottalanmiller said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

            @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

            @stacksofplates said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

            I've always found NGINX to be much lighter weight and performant than Apache.

            My website is ultra fast now. https://cloudsecuritylife.com

            Almost instant loading

            That does load fast!

            I went from about 3-4 seconds load time to about 700ms in total. Nginx and nginx caching is most of the difference, but yui-compressor on all the js files helped some, too!

            Any reason that you are avoiding the CloudFlare cache? Not finding it as fast as Nginx' own?

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            • IRJI
              IRJ @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

              @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

              @scottalanmiller said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

              @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

              @stacksofplates said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

              I've always found NGINX to be much lighter weight and performant than Apache.

              My website is ultra fast now. https://cloudsecuritylife.com

              Almost instant loading

              That does load fast!

              I went from about 3-4 seconds load time to about 700ms in total. Nginx and nginx caching is most of the difference, but yui-compressor on all the js files helped some, too!

              Any reason that you are avoiding the CloudFlare cache? Not finding it as fast as Nginx' own?

              I really wanted to do everything server side and be as lean as possible. I wanted zero plugins related to performance on my WP site. I thought it would be a good idea to try nginx caching as I could always route back through cloudflare. Once turned on and then running yui-compressor on my /var/www/html directory, the performance gains were unreal.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                @scottalanmiller said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                @scottalanmiller said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                @stacksofplates said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                I've always found NGINX to be much lighter weight and performant than Apache.

                My website is ultra fast now. https://cloudsecuritylife.com

                Almost instant loading

                That does load fast!

                I went from about 3-4 seconds load time to about 700ms in total. Nginx and nginx caching is most of the difference, but yui-compressor on all the js files helped some, too!

                Any reason that you are avoiding the CloudFlare cache? Not finding it as fast as Nginx' own?

                I really wanted to do everything server side and be as lean as possible. I wanted zero plugins related to performance on my WP site. I thought it would be a good idea to try nginx caching as I could always route back through cloudflare. Once turned on and then running yui-compressor on my /var/www/html directory, the performance gains were unreal.

                Okay, so not really avoiding it, just not using it right now.

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                • ObsolesceO
                  Obsolesce
                  last edited by

                  Is it ONLY a change to Nginx, or was caching added, new DB, updated Lamp stack, etc?

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                  • IRJI
                    IRJ @Obsolesce
                    last edited by

                    @Obsolesce said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                    Is it ONLY a change to Nginx, or was caching added, new DB, updated Lamp stack, etc?

                    3 changes as stated above:
                    Nginx
                    Nginx caching
                    Javascript compression on server side

                    I was using cloudflare previously and they supposedly minify js and css along with their CDN. I really wasnt expecting a performance increase.

                    Oh btw thanks for the decrappifer script on your blog. I ran that against my win10 vm and it helped alot.

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                    • ObsolesceO
                      Obsolesce @IRJ
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                      @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                      3 changes as stated above:
                      Nginx
                      Nginx caching
                      Javascript compression on server side

                      Ah, yeah I posted before I read. It's just a PITA on mobile.

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                      • ObsolesceO
                        Obsolesce @IRJ
                        last edited by

                        @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                        Oh btw thanks for the decrappifer script on your blog. I ran that against my win10 vm and it helped alot.

                        Cool, I'm glad it helped 😄

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                          1337 @IRJ
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                          @IRJ said in Massive speed increase when switching WordPress from apache to nginx:

                          I really wanted to do everything server side and be as lean as possible. I wanted zero plugins related to performance on my WP site.

                          Lean WP, that's an oxymoron if anything 🙂

                          I've heard before that some sites are slower with cloudflare CDN compared to going straight to the site. Are you using http/2 as well?

                          Most likely in this case, the switch to nginx from apache itself didn't make anything noticeably faster but the caching and compression did.

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