The point of this discussion is to share things we’ve learnt at ZippyKid on how to speed up your WordPress site. I’m going to share some basic tips on what to do to speed things up by default, the first part of the presentation is going to discuss how to setup WordPress on an NGINX/PHP-FPM system easily. I’ll share some basic Chef recipes that we have open sourced and how to use them to setup a cloud server at Rackspace, or EC2.
The second part will discuss tweaks to php.ini, the MySQL server, understanding the analysis from NewRelic, and other monitoring tools that are available to people.
