Recommended Nginx Configuration for High Traffic WordPress

Recommended Nginx Configuration for High Traffic WordPress on Small VPS (512 RAM)

A mere half-year ago, I was published two article to guide you setup perfect VPS on Digital Ocean and the guidelines to optimize LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server on lowest VPS hardware plan. My VPS that’s optimized with Varnish, W3 Total Cache, PHP-APC was powered on since November 2013 until now without any reboot or reset. I estimate my server could easily handle 50K – 100K page views per day. At that point I would be close to breaking 95% memory usage (with swap file). In just an afternoon last week, my server was survival with 280K page views, without any downtime.

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Comprehensive Guide to Real Time Backup your Website to Dropbox

This is my last article about WordPress/Website/Hosting backup because in my opinion, it’s perfect solution to keep complete files/databases backups on the cloud and in real-time. As you known, I’ve moved to Digital Ocean for 9 months ago, then I configurated a very tiny VPS with low RAM to serving 5 websites with 10K pageviews per days.
If you’re following NARGA.NET and you’ve read some articles about automatic backup WordPress databasesclean and optimize WordPress databases

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5 Ways WordPress Helps Blog Monetization

There are more than 152 million blogs on the Internet, according to a November 2013 post in the online WordPress blogging magazine WP Virtuoso, and a new blog is created somewhere in the world every half-second. That adds up to a whole lot of blogs, but not every blog is a moneymaker for its owner. Blogging probably won’t make you obscenely rich, but it can earn you a decent income if you’re willing to work at it. However, some platforms are better for monetization than others, and of the numerous blogging platforms available, WordPress is arguably the best one for those who wish to reach a large audience and are serious about monetizing their blogs.

WordPress provides numerous monetization options, as well as flexibility and outstanding support. And its self-hosting version, WordPress.org, offers a range of plugins that can help make monetization even easier.

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Themeforest, CodeCanyon... May's FREE File of The Month

Themeforest, CodeCanyon… May’s Free File of The Month

Every month the Envato brings you a collection of spectacular Marketplace items you can download absolutely free of charge as free file of the month. Although many of the items are definitely worth buying, getting a little something free each month does sweeten the pot and make you keep coming back for more. Here are the files which you can get for free for May 2014. They’re available from the International Workers’ Day until midnight on the the end of May, 2014 (AEDT). Each user is entitled to one free regular license. Grab them while you can!

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