Moved!
Just writing to let you know that I’ve switched servers for this blog! I’ve been meaning to get this on to a faster server that I have control over for awhile, and I finally got around to doing it.
For those of you who are curious, this site is being served by WordPress Multisite, on a Sakura 2G VPS.
And because everyone likes talking about stacks:
Kidding.
That’s it! There is some moderate caching in most layers (WordPress Object Cache, APC, NGINX, etc), but nothing too drastic. It’s much faster now than it was on the previous server - we’ll see how this one holds up.
Thoughts during the Migration Process
MariaDB
I can’t say this enough - really, really, really smooth. Just stop mysql, remove, install MariaDB, then start it up again. All my data was migrated automatically.
NGINX + PHP + WordPress
There were a ton of guides for this kind of setup, but the two that most helped me were the WordPress Codex and rtCamp’s excellent WordPress + Nginx tutorials. Reading through both is highly recommended.