Advanced WordPress Performance: Beyond the Cache
How to make WordPress fly. Nginx tuning, object caching, and database optimization for the modern web.
The Nginx + PHP-FPM Powerhouse
Apache is fine, but Nginx is king for WordPress. On AIHostOn, we recommend an Nginx configuration with FastCGI caching enabled. This allows Nginx to serve static versions of your pages directly from RAM, bypassing PHP and the database entirely for logged-out users. In our benchmarks, this setup can handle 50x more traffic than a standard Apache + MySQL installation on the same hardware.
Database Indexing & Query Optimization
WordPress's `wp_options` and `wp_postmeta` tables can become sluggish over time. Regularly clean up transients and utilize a Redis Object Cache to store expensive database query results. Using WP-CLI, you can automate these maintenance tasks. Our 'WordPress Optimized' images come with these tools pre-installed and tuned specifically for our NVMe storage backend.
