php-fpm

These interests are the main reasons for many blog authors to switch to static site generators like Jekyll or Hugo. Performance and security is always a thing you should be aware of when hosting a website, but I am feeling comfortable with the WordPress right now and my guest authors like to write posts with the Gutenberg editor as well. After reading a post by Delicious Brains about their suggestion in caching WordPress by directly serving cached html files with Nginx before running PHP, I started to improve my setup by something similar with WP-Super-Cache....

I was recently introduced to a new software called Traefik. A reverse proxy / load balancer that’s easy, dynamic, automatic, fast, full-featured, open source, production proven, provides metrics, and integrates with every major cluster technology… No wonder it’s so popular! What else to say? Sounds exactly like a tool I would love. As my setup is already based on a great diversity of docker containers it sounded interesting to me to have a reverse proxy that is handling routing and load balancing automatically to them and can even manage the necessary Let’s encrypt certificates for me....