OMNINOGGIN

I hope I can get some part-time consulting jobs to do this optimization for small businesses. All in all, it doesn’t seem too hard to do and I enjoyed doing it. If you run into a problem just google it for the answer. Anyway, here is the recap of the steps I took to set up my FreeBSD 6.2 Web Server.

1. Installing OS
2. Setting Up Apache, MySQL, and Other Services
3. Migrating Wordpress from WinXP to FreeBSD
4. Optimizing Apache
5. Optimizing MySQL
6. Optimizing PHP
7. Proxy Caching
8. Optimizing Wordpress with WP-Cache
9. Keeping Your FreeBSD Ports Up-to-Date Effortlessly
10. Setting Up Sendmail on FreeBSD 6.2

This was by far the easiest step in my optimization process. To optimize PHP, I used the software called eAccelerator. Compared to all of the other steps, this one had the best ROI for me.

When a PHP script is executed, the PHP interpreter will spend some time interpreting the script then compile the interpretations into opcodes for execution. eAccelerator will precompile your PHP code into ready executable opcodes and manage that opcode cache for you. If your PHP script does not change, Apache will directly call the precompiled opcodes (saving interpretation and compilation time).

This is what I did to set it up: Read on…