I would like to offer a setup that is optimized for WordPress in general and pagespeed in particular. I'm fairly inexperienced in this, so please bear with me I would like some pointers, tips&tricks, dos and dont's regarding all the choices leading to a fast as possible setup for WordPress considering the hardware. Hardware: HPE GEN 8, 8 GB RAM, Celeron G1610T, HDD HP SAS 1TB in Raid 5. Running on ESXi v6.7. What choices and settings do I need to gain as good performance as possible from bottom to top. Settings for the VM in ESXI, ram, cpu, disk, provisioning etc? For the OS I will choose Ubuntu LTS18.04 (since to my understanding there is no Perfect server guide for 20.04 yet?) Which Perfect Server setup should I go for, the Nginx or Apache? Or something custom? Which components/software should I choose? Webserver: Apache or nginx? Litesail is commercial right? Database: mysql, maria, mongo... etc? PHP versions: PHP-FM, etc? Caching: redis, memcached or anything else? Site settings inside ISPConfig (suexec...etc)? Other things that I don't yet have a clue about I'm very thankful any information and help
Recent discussion about NGINX and Pagspeed with ISPConfig: https://www.howtoforge.com/communit...nginx-compiled-from-source.84699/#post-405600 You can find these using Internet Search Engines with Code: site:howtoforge.com nginx pagespeed For the other things: my opinion is mirroring is faster than RAID 5. This may depend on what kind of load is put on the disk system. more RAM helps file system does contribute to the performance. EXT4 is not always faster, depends on what kind of load is put on the disk system find benchmarks to see what is faster, for example from https://www.phoronix.com. There are lots of other places, even running on Linux. even enabling all kinds of speed and cache components, the end user may not notice any benefit if you really want to know which is faster, you have to run benchmarks yourself on your load to be sure.
