This site is proudly powered by the following technologies…
Blogging Platform: WordPress
Web Server: Nginx – Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Nginx is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. Here in this VPS, it listens on port 443 and has http2 enabled.
Dynamic Object Handling: PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
Host: Google Compute Engine
WP Caching: Redis WP Object Cache and WP Super Cache
DNS: Amazon Route 53 (Google DNS as of 2022). Do you know how free DNS hurts a website’s performance?
CDN: Microsoft Azure (via Akamai, primarily for its wider coverage)
Notable Plugins:
- Block Bad Queries (BBQ)
- Cache Buddy
- Contact Form 7
- Cookies for Comments
- Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Harrys Gravatar Cache
Theme: Forked TwentySeventeen theme.
Finally, some disclaimer and comment policy, if you wish to read. :)
Update in 2022
A few more services have been added since this post was published. Go and check out the infrastructure that tinywp.in uses as of 2022.
