{"id":3280,"date":"2012-04-05T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T09:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2012-04-05T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:00:01","slug":"server-migration-moved-to-linode-and-changed-to-nginxphp-fpmapcw3tc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2012\/04\/server-migration-moved-to-linode-and-changed-to-nginxphp-fpmapcw3tc\/","title":{"rendered":"Server Migration &#8211; Moved To Linode! And Changed To Nginx\/PHP-FPM\/APC\/W3TC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So lately I&#8217;ve being doing a lot more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DevOps\">DevOps<\/a> stuff than security stuff and I&#8217;m pretty much enjoying it (apart from some of the tedious sys-admin stuff).<\/p>\n<p>So with some of the new stuff I&#8217;ve learnt along the way, I decided to move Darknet from a rather bloated managed VPS with 2GB of RAM and Cpanel + a bunch of other crap to a very lean 512MB unmanaged VPS instance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linode.com\/?r=1f4a6e3230f939e67d3b8c9642a842d806733ee2\">Linode<\/a>. This has no control panel, no DNS server (using Linode DNS now), no mail server (switched over to Google Apps) and a very minimal software setup.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linode.com\/?r=1f4a6e3230f939e67d3b8c9642a842d806733ee2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linode.com\/images\/pr\/banner_575x70.jpg\" alt=\"Linode VPS\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also shifted from Apache2 to nginx + PHP-FPM which is a lot more memory friendly, and PHP-FPM has very intelligent self-healing and auto-scaling features.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve managed to get W3 Total Cache working nicely with the site, so basically all pages are served as static HTML, js + css are minified and DB + WP objects are cached in APC.<\/p>\n<p>The most memory I&#8217;ve used so far is a little over 100MB, and the most CPU I&#8217;ve used is 32% out of an available 400% (4 cores) &#8211; pretty good for a reasonably busy site like this.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway if you find the site faster or slower now, let me know &#8211; and if you see any weird stuff\/errors\/missing pages &#8211; please let me know (either in a comment here or via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/contact-darknet\/\">Contact Page<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And yah, if you do want to sign up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linode.com\/?r=1f4a6e3230f939e67d3b8c9642a842d806733ee2\">Linode<\/a>, please use the links on this page &#8211; if you stay a customer for 3 months I&#8217;ll get $20 credit which will go towards the hosting costs of this site :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So lately I&#8217;ve being doing a lot more DevOps stuff than security stuff and I&#8217;m pretty much enjoying it (apart from some of the tedious sys-admin stuff). So with some of the new stuff I&#8217;ve learnt along the way, I decided to move Darknet from a rather bloated managed VPS with 2GB of RAM and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2428,899],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}