Comparing Apache mod_php, fcgid, proxy_fcgi + php-fpm with different MPMs for a WordPress blog.

WordPress platform is very popular for personal sites and blogs. In this article I will stress-test my own site in order find best performance CGI and MPM. All test was performed on low-end droplet from DigitalOcean:1 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB SSD Apache 2.4.10, PHP 5.6.20, MySQL 14.14 Distrib 5.5.49 was installed.Opcache was enabled …

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