In this post I’ll show you how to upgrade PHP 5.6 to 7.1 in CentOS 7 Linux. I performed this process today on this server and wanted to document the problems that I had along the way, along with relevant fixes.
Tag Archives: Nginx
How To Upgrade PHP 5.6 to 7.1 in CentOS 7 Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 5, 2017
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How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx, Caching And A CDN
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on February 13, 2017
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This WordPress based website loads fairly quickly, or at least I’d like to think so based on my testing. In this post I’m going to share some of the things that I’ve setup in order to get the fastest possible page loads from WordPress.
We’ll be covering general server configuration, Nginx web server configuration, WordPress plugin configuration, and finally use of content distribution networks.
Linux VS Windows Web Server Benchmarks
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on January 12, 2017
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Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks and Windows web server benchmarks, I noticed that in general IIS appeared to perform better than all Linux based web servers that I’d previously tested.
As my Linux results were completed in March last year, I’ve run some of the tests again with the most up to date versions of each web server to ensure that the best performance can be achieved.
So let’s find out how Linux and Windows based web servers compare against each other in a static workload speed test.