What is the best possible server configuration dedicated for muli-site / multi-network multidb and d
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What is the best possible server configuration dedicated for muli-site / multi-network multidb and d
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16th February 2011 (1 year ago)
Hey, my wordpress multi-network outgrew it's massive reseller account on my main hosting server, and I have setup 2 new boxes side by side on the same switch, just for http://www.xInd.ca and the network it runs with multi-site, multi-dbase, multi-network, a multitude of customizations and other fancy plugins, and high volume traffic and server resource usage.
I am wondering what is the best possible linux distro and configuration for these 2 servers, if they are running absolutely nothing else. One server will run the databases and the other the front end.
I don't plan to use cpanel, as this would be completely unnecessary seeing as how there will be no other accounts running, and nobody but myself and our admins will have access to anything on the server. I have a server admin available if something is out of my league, and I own http://www.StableHosting.ca so you will note that I am able to set these boxes up however I want them, period.
Clearly, this will open some more cans of worms as we go, as we'll be looking at setting up wordpress properly and securely without the standard urls and filenames, etc. Has anyone here setup a dedicated server without cpanel specifically for wordpress?
Hey, my wordpress multi-network outgrew it's massive reseller account on my main hosting server, and I have setup 2 new boxes side by side on the same switch, just for http://www.xInd.ca and the network it runs with multi-site, multi-dbase, multi-network, a multitude of customizations and other fancy plugins, and high volume traffic and server resource usage.
I am wondering what is the best possible linux distro and configuration for these 2 servers, if they are running absolutely nothing else. One server will run the databases and the other the front end.
I don't plan to use cpanel, as this would be completely unnecessary seeing as how there will be no other accounts running, and nobody but myself and our admins will have access to anything on the server. I have a server admin available if something is out of my league, and I own http://www.StableHosting.ca so you will note that I am able to set these boxes up however I want them, period.
Clearly, this will open some more cans of worms as we go, as we'll be looking at setting up wordpress properly and securely without the standard urls and filenames, etc. Has anyone here setup a dedicated server without cpanel specifically for wordpress?
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Hello xInd,
As I haven't had the opportunity to work with hosting configurations in that capacity, I'll have to rely on the resident experts here. Let me see who I can find!
Thank you for the suggestions, I will read those articles and see if we formulate our final answer. We were already thinking about using ubuntu server edition since we're already familiar with it in our dev dept without any assistance from our server admins for StableHosting.ca
What about on the wordpress side? Is there more I should be thinking about other than how we've already set things up for multi-site / multi-network?
Do you have any outside the box security tips, past typical wp plugins (or is there one actually meant for this?) ssl and changing urls etc...?
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WPMU DEV Fanatic — 16th February 2011 (1 year ago) #
Hello xInd,
As I haven't had the opportunity to work with hosting configurations in that capacity, I'll have to rely on the resident experts here. Let me see who I can find!
Cheers,
David
Lead Developer — 16th February 2011 (1 year ago) #
It's kinda a subjective thing. Linux is a matter of preference, I think you'll have less trouble with debian/ubuntu (more tutorials on the net, etc).
A number of us strongly recommend nginx with php_fpm instead of apache.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/tags/nginx
With 2 servers probably the most efficient setup is do 1 web server and 1 db server, should give you LOTS of room to grow. If you really want to go wild: http://wpmu.org/scaling-wordpress-wpmu-buddypress-like-edublogs/
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Thank you for the suggestions, I will read those articles and see if we formulate our final answer. We were already thinking about using ubuntu server edition since we're already familiar with it in our dev dept without any assistance from our server admins for StableHosting.ca
What about on the wordpress side? Is there more I should be thinking about other than how we've already set things up for multi-site / multi-network?
Do you have any outside the box security tips, past typical wp plugins (or is there one actually meant for this?) ssl and changing urls etc...?
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