I had recently realized that one of my servers had been compromised. Hacked into. The best solution I had come up with was to rebuild the server. I quickly did a backup of the databases and all the code and moved them off of the server.
When spinning up a new server, I had the chance to finally move to a different tech stack I had been wanting to use.
- CentOS 7
- Nginx
- MariaDB
This meant no more Apache and no more MySQL. The change between MySQL and MariaDB was really only in the name. There was no change in code or scripts for what I was doing. Awesome!
The Nginx implementation was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be too. I had some Nginx experience from a past contract and knew of the performance increase. Some configuration changes and learning how to setup multiple virtual hosts, and that was that.
At this point, the basic installation seems as fast as my previous Apache + Memcache install.
What is left?
Well this was a very quick implementation in-order-to get my websites moved to a different server. As fast as the stack is right now, I still want to install Memcache as well as Varnish.
Here are a couple of great articles that I used to setup my server and get Drupal 7 running with Nginx and MariaDB.
https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-drupal-7-on-centos-7-with-nginx-mariadb-and-php-fpm/
Don't forget to install Drush on your new server. It's too easy:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2132447
Don't forget to install Drush on your new server. It's too easy:
https://www.drupal.org/node/2132447
A little bit of learning, but I'm very happy with the LEMP and Drupal 7 configuration.
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