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I still get something like 100 visitors a day to an old blog post [1] I did on wordpress performance, and emails most weeks asking for additional information. It's slightly depressing that wordpress itself doesn't ship with a decent basic caching function out of the box

1 - http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/900/10-million-hits-a-day-with...



That... that is an incredibly helpful walkthrough. It would have been nice if you included vsftpd or some other ftp program too - but bookmarked nonetheless.


The question is... do your really need FTP ? See, he installed ssh and allowed it through the firewall. IMO, who needs ftp when you have sftp ? (please read this question as : "Do you really want to use an old and crappy protocol when you have a decent, recent, secure protocol which, by the way, is certainly supported by your favorite FTP client ?")


Exactly right yes, there's really no excuse for using plain FTP anymore, and FTP over SSL is just a mess.


Good point. I should probably put vanilla FTP to the wayside and move onto sftp.


I strongly agree.

Your blog post has been in my bookmarks for 6 months, working with a lot of WPs I'm referring to it several times a month ! Great ressource, thank you !


I'm glad you find it useful :)


I'm probably one of those visitors that visited your site on how to optimize my own blog.




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