{"id":378,"date":"2019-05-10T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unsrewiki.1sys1.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2019-05-22T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T22:00:52","slug":"building-and-scaling-a-website-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/building-and-scaling-a-website-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Building and Scaling a Website – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Basics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In Part 1 of this guide we will show you how to increase your website performance using the most basic and typical server setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This guide assumes that you have a single Cloud Server running CentOS 7 where you plan on hosting a single WordPress site that you will scale in the future by adding additional CPU\/RAM. More advanced options for scaling and redundancy will come in future guides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of Part 1 you will have a new WordPress Website running Apache, PHP 7.3, MariaDB 10.2, and secured with a Let’s Encrypt SSL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1). yum update<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2). vi \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/MariaDB.repo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You now have a CentOS 7 server configured with Apache 2.4, MariaDB 10.2, and PHP 7.3. We will now get a WordPress site up and running and secure it with an SSL using Let’s Encrypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1). mkdir \/var\/www\/mywebsite.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2). vi \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/mywebsite.conf<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Create DATABASE wp;\nCREATE USER 'wordpress'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'Xsfd2V^dg1';\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO wordpress@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'Xsfd2V^dg1' WITH GRANT OPTION;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
1). Test your website’s SSL using: https:\/\/www.ssllabs.com\/ssltest\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should look like the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
2). We will now correct these issues. Typically this will be done in \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/ssl.conf however if these settings don’t have any effect add them into \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2). vi \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/expires.conf <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ExpiresActive on\nExpiresDefault \"access plus 14 days\"\nExpiresByType image\/jpg \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType image\/gif \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType image\/png \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType application\/pdf \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType text\/javascript \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType text\/x-javascript \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType application\/javascript \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType application\/x-shockwave-flash \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType text\/css \"now plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType image\/ico \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType image\/x-icon \"access plus 1 month\"\nExpiresByType text\/html \"access plus 1 days\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
3). apachectl -k restart <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion of Part 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In Part 1 we have got a brand new WordPress site setup and configured on a single Cloud Server. It is light, lean, and should function well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For further performance improvements and redundancy you can now setup with a 3rd-party CDN such as Cloudflare and\/or increase your server’s available CPU\/RAM resources as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may also want to configure a cache\/minify plugin for WordPress such as W3TotalCache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also be sure to test the site metrics with tools such as webpagetest.org to see if there are any additional minor improvements you can perform such as compressing images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Part 2 we will improve this setup by including multiple servers for additional performance, scalability, and redundancy in order to handle large amount of traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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