Title: Ultimate Optimized WordPress Server
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Ultimate Optimized WordPress Server

 *  [enderandrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enderandrew/)
 * (@enderandrew)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ultimate-optimized-wordpress-server/)
 * I’m looking to build a WordPress server on a VPS. There are guides out there 
   to do a basic LAMP stack, and I’ve done that in the past. But because a VPS has
   limited resources, I’m looking for an optimal build in performance and security.
 * Is nginx really the way to go over Apache?
 * And my last WordPress install on Apache ended up with a lot of .htaccess rewrite
   rules and I’m not sure how to implement them in nginx.
 * For PHP, should I run FPM or Fast-CGI?
 * Should I run PHP-NG, HHVM or what? Check out these benchmarks – [https://kinsta.com/blog/real-world-wordpress-benchmarks-with-php5-5-php5-6-php-ng-and-hhvm/](https://kinsta.com/blog/real-world-wordpress-benchmarks-with-php5-5-php5-6-php-ng-and-hhvm/)
 * Should I run another DB other than MySql?
 * There are literally millions of WordPress sites out there. I’m assuming someone
   has to have a guide on how to build the best possible WordPress server right 
   now.

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