Tag: wordpress
Serve a WordPress site from a home server through a lightweight VPS proxy — static assets mirrored to the VPS disk, dynamic requests proxied over Tailscale, and every database query running at local NVMe latency. A playground project that turned out well enough to document.
The WordPress admin dashboard works, but on a VPS you have a faster option. Plugin updates in under a second, search-replace across 50,000 rows without timing out, and everything scriptable — the wp-cli commands that actually matter for managing WordPress on your own server.
On a VPS, the server layer already handles most of what optimization plugins do. The cost of letting one run on every request can outweigh anything it claims to save.
A production-ready Nginx configuration for WordPress 6.9.4 — security blocks, static caching, Cloudflare real-IP, rate limiting, and wp-config.php essentials tuned for performance.
WordPress search queries can hammer your database and bring down a site under heavy load. Use Nginx rate limiting to cap search requests before they reach PHP.