So I've spent the last couple of weeks tweaking my web server stack. I like my site to pop, and I've finally achieved a configuration that I'm somewhat happy with.
In sum, I'm running Varnish as a front-end to Nginx which is running WordPress loaded with the W3-Total-Cache plugin. The W3-Total-Cache plugin is configured to use both memcached as well as Amazon S3 as its CDN. All of this sits on Ubuntu Linux with Linode as my host.
Rebooting is one of the important task to be performed once in a month in order to install updates for your kernel and to increase the performance of your active dedicated server. The reboot of server is essential everytime when you install any updates or patch your kernel.
Welcome to the new home of Practical PHP Programming - now updated for PHP 5.2. This is the definitive source for the book from now on, and you'll be pleased to know the entire book is hosted on a super-fast server so you should never have access troubles again.