Continuing on the theme of the last couple of days – the “Proof of concept” site now has more pages – with differing backgrounds and styles.  Making me learn a lot more about DIVI doing this!

Work continues on the “proof of concept” css modifications to menu items…

Work continues on the “proof of concept” version of a website – in wordpress

Fairly major rush to get an “in principal” version of a web site running in wordpress.  Going to be doing this for a while!

It’s that time of year again, where I dust off the GraigAid website – give the shop a spring clean, and hopefully get a reasonable bunch of tickets sold in advance of the event.

OK so having been mucking around with nginx, I thought it was time for a quick comparison. I duplicated the brain and created a second brain.  They are both on virtual servers with 2GB RAM – OK they are not identical platforms one is on Digital Ocean and the other on one of our own virtual servers – but as far as can be done easily they are the same.

I than ran both through GTMetrix and webpagetest and the results are show below:

In both tests the second brain was quicker, and noticeably on the webpagetest the time to first byte is much quicker.

I’ll probably keep mucking about with this over time, and I may well move this 100days blog to the same server as brain2 to see if there is an improvement there as well.

OK – time for security – played around with SSL settings – for nginx and apache for better performance – reduced the number of cyphers used.  Looked at changing ISPConfig templates for nginx vhost configs – there may well be a blog post coming out of it.

Trying to get wordfence falcon cache working with nginx – having some issues still

More work on the nginx side of things and getting wordpress running properly under it.

Started investigation using nginx instead of apache – apparently better performance etc.  Installed in on my second server.