Hey @mcpeanut
Check out the Nginx WordPress article; it may help whilst you’re waiting for a response.
cheers @henrywright for the link to the article, its a good read and i am 100 percent certain that i am going to install nginx after reading many of good things about it, i am using whm/cpanel on my server and there seems to be an nginx cpanel plugin that i am looking into.
apparently using a properly configured nginx server can outperform apache by up to 50% thats some boost.
@henrywright who is the best person to ask on these forums to add a new section?
I would love to see a server configuration and hardware setups section for buddypress in these forums, i have mentioned this before.
It could be a specific place for people to share all kinds of server configuration settings and tips and server scalability issues etc along with initial setup advice to.
I mean i would be willing to post a few server tips and tricks i have learnt along the way into this section and maybe write a few guides etc for server lockdown and shh hardening tips etc, even though i am still learning alot of server administration tasks (because the scope is vast )it would be good to have a place for vps and dedicated server users to all have a chat about issues and setups etc for buddypress. I do realise as a rule that there are plenty of server setup and config info all over the web on other forums etc and in articles but hey would it not be great for users of buddypress to have a tips and help section for this to? this would let users share their experiences with setups running with buddypress installs specifically and could also cover things like server level caching php caching and many other tweaks needed to run at optimum performance. lets be real here buddypress is not designed to run very well on shared hosting (not for very long anyhows to you bottleneck yourself) and i think this would be good info for people making the leap to other setups.
That’s great you’re interested in updating the docs.
@henrywright who is the best person to ask on these forums to add a new section?
@mercime should be able to grant you contribute access to codex.buddypress.org.
Ref: https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/
cool he will probs read this when hes online, this is the thing with buddypress, i just didnt understand when i first came to these forums a few years ago even though i had been comming longer without registering, I myself had shared hosting and thought yippee i have found a plugin that i was looking for and installed it, then after messing around with buddypress it dawned on me that shared hosting just was not gonna cut the ice with buddypress let alone wordpress for a serious install.
I then decided to delve into the world of dedicated/vps servers. I am by no means an expert in this world yet but i believe from my own experience that it is a very daunting task moving to these kind of setups at first, once you get the basics of initial setup and general security right its then time to tweak everything for future proofing and scaling and performance tweaking if your serious about the future of your website, unless your willing to pay ALOT of cash out to people who can do his for you full time.
This is why i sort of pushed my buddypress websites design back in favour of looking into all this. I think this is one of the biggest points concerning every website build and believe that not enough info is out there to make people understand just how important all this is to succeed with their websites, alot of people see these one click easy installs and adverts off companys telling them to come build your website with us its easy then see wordpress installed and think yippe look at my new website and what it can do, until of course they then get popular crash and burn then fail and give up because they just dont understand the reality involved in pushing forward a scalable environment. This is why i believe people doing a massive project such as buddypress should really be able to share this info with each other from nivice users to experts in this field.
Completely agree! The LAMP stack is so easy to install I think sometimes people might not realise there are alternatives. Be good to read your article once written!
>cool he will probs read this when hes online,
She’ll be happy to grant contributor access to the codex as will I as Codex leads, although all Mods should be able to(not 100% sure of that though)
Specific and detailed server configs does start to veer of topic for the BuddyPress Codex somewhat ( WP Codex probably has more extensive detail on WP and server setup as it’s WP really that we’re installing and running on the server), although we wouldn’t say don’t write up something along those lines.
We also would be happy for any other guides / write ups that you might like to suggest and tackle – the codex is only as good as it’s contributions from the community 🙂
Thats the thing henry alot of people dont even understand what you just said more than likely and if they do once they have performed their initial install of Linux/ Apache/ MySQL and PHP everything is left as default for most people. I guess what i have been trying to do for the past few years is come up with the best possible config and environment for true scalability, this is my 4th server and i have upgraded from first having a vps to then having 3 dedicated servers each more powerfull than the last, i have now decided to stick with my newest server for the initial release of my buddypress built site and may keep my other 2 online for when i want to delve into the world of adding servers together for scalability (which i still have alot to learn as i know how to do this in theory but not yet in paractice) as i have a good deal on them and use them for testing with.
my new server is an 8 core xeon @3.3ghz with 32gb eec ram and 4 x 3tb hardrive in raid 10 with a dedicated hardware raid controller so should be great for buddypress.
@hnla lol sorry my bad i didnt realise the HE was infact a SHE :), yes i agree its slightly off topic as a whole for buddypress but isnt that some point serious buddypress users are in-fact going to have to deal with in the future?
This is why i said maybe have its own section in the forums than just having to post it under miscellaneous?
What good is it having a porche with only a sinclair c5 engine under the hood ? 🙂
