Title: Optimized Hosting Setup – easy apache
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Optimized Hosting Setup – easy apache

 *  [Matthew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serpico/)
 * (@serpico)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimized-hosting-setup-easy-apache/)
 * I recently attended a WordCamp event and saw a great talk about optimized hosting
   for WordPress.
 * Of the recommendations, there were two which we were not already doing;
 * 1) Install a PHP Opcode Cache and allocate 128MB RAM.
    2) Configure Apache to
   launch PHP-FPM in FastCGI mode and communicate using Unix Sockets.
 * Server configuration is outside my skill-set. This was the response from our 
   host company on both issues.
 * > _ 1) Install a PHP Opcode Cache and allocate 128MB RAM._
   >  For this requirement,
   > we will have to run easy apache on your server.
   > EasyApache is software that installs, modifies, and validates your Apache web
   > server, PHP, Tomcat, and other components of your web server.
   >  There can be
   > some downtime while running easy apache. So please confirm us the exact date
   > and time to run easy apache.
 * >  _2) Configure Apache to launch PHP-FPM in FastCGI mode and communicate using
   > Unix Sockets._
   >  Currently, your server is using SuPHP as apache handler.
   > Using fastcgi, you cannot use PHP directives in .htaccess. This is expected
   > by many popular scripts. Some scripts cannot work on fastcgi php handler.
   > Still, if you wish to enable fastcgi handler, then we need to run easy apache
   > on your server, which may cause downtime on your server. So please confirm 
   > us the exact date and time to run easy apache.
 * Just wondering what the communities thoughts are on this and whether there are
   any concerns here.

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimized-hosting-setup-easy-apache/#post-5371573)
 * EasyApache is a server tool that basically configures Apache, PHP, etc. While
   it doesn’t do much itself, it does let you change the servers settings ot suit
   your own environment.
 * Allocating that much RAM is fine. It’s good to see your hosting company allow
   that… Most will top out around 64MB so you’re doing well to get 128MB.
 * As far as running in FastCGI, that’s good, but it does come down to ease of use,
   and just how loaded your server is. Running as SuPHP does let you do the good
   things of auto-updates, and allows the scripts to do what they need to do. FastCGI
   doesn’t allow a lot of that, as well as the issues with .htaccess that your hosting
   company has mentioned. Being realistic, unless your server is getting bogged 
   down with massive traffic your users won’t notice much of a differnce (if any
   at all) by switching from one to the other.
 * What it comes down to is that those recommendations are great, but unless your
   site is sarting to overload your server, it’s really not going to make that much
   difference in the long run.
 *  Thread Starter [Matthew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serpico/)
 * (@serpico)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimized-hosting-setup-easy-apache/#post-5371575)
 * Thanks [@catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/) – really
   appreciate the feedback!
 * The site doesn’t have a lot of traffic. We use WT3 cache and a CDN which means
   the front-end is nice and fast, but the back-end is particularly slow and the
   store checkout is also slow as this is outside the CDN.
 * Perhaps I need to do some more diagnostics.
 *  [Jerry Nguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerry-nguyen/)
 * (@jerry-nguyen)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimized-hosting-setup-easy-apache/#post-5371583)
 * Unexpectedly, I do not think wordpress could do that. I used it a while ago but
   did not know about this feature.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimized-hosting-setup-easy-apache/#post-5371585)
 * [@jerry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerry/) Which feature? Nothing that
   has been discusses so far has been a feature of WordPress. it’s all been hosting
   server settings.

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