Category: Linux

Creative (i.e. weird) WordPress Hosting Tricks

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I frequently play around with different ways of improving Wordpress performance through hosting configurations, not so much because it’s necessary but because I have fun doing it. This was one of those times… I wondered about the value of catching the front-end of a Wordpress installation with Nginx but directing everything on the dashboard side of things to Apache2.

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Category: Apache, How-To, Linux, Webservers, WordPress

Creating a Local Docker Swarm with VirtualBox

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Docker Swarm is the container orchestration tool built into Docker, and while it isn’t nearly as popular as Kubernetes, it still has a lot going for it. It uses mostly the same syntax as Docker, so you can leverage your existing knowledge. To make a Swarm cluster in VirtualBox we’ll need three VMs that a) can talk to each other, b) can be accessed from your local computer, and c) can get to the Internet.

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Category: Docker, Linux, Tutorial