Page Caching: Varnish vs Nginx FastCGI Cache

Varnish has long been a part of the stack we use here on our site, handling full-page caching, but after some benchmarking it looks like Nginx FastCGI Cache is actually a better choice. If you followed along with Ashley’s Hosting WordPress Yourself series, you’re probably familiar with the stack but here’s a diagram as a…

This is article 4 of 12 in the series “Hosting WordPress Yourself” In the previous installment of this series, I walked you through the process of how to quickly setup sites using WP-CLI. However, no considerations were made on how well the server would handle traffic under heavy load. As a system administrator, it is…