How PHP-FPM Boosts WordPress Performance on Digital Ocean VPS
Setting up WordPress is easy task. Tuning it to run fast under real-world pressure? That’s where things get serious. In my previous article, I tested a heavy, production-grade WordPress stack on four Digital Ocean droplets — using Apache, NGINX, Redis, and PHP 8.2, with the app running under PHP-CGI. The results were eye-opening: even modest traffic loads exposed performance bottlenecks in lower-memory VPS setups. Now, I’ve taken that exact same stack — same WordPress site, same plugins, same VPS hardware — and rebuilt it to run on PHP-FPM instead of PHP-CGI. This article picks up right where the last left