This tutorial contains information about the preparation of the system in order to run dnsmasq and also detailed instructions about how to configure it as a caching DNS server. A full configuration file is also provided as a drop-in replacement for the default dnsmasq.conf.
I needed to make some changes to the website layout this afternoon, so I turned off WP-Super-Cache for a while. As you can clearly see in the following graph the CPU time consumed by php-cgi processes increased by 2-4 times when caching was turned off between 14:00-17:00. And this increase was caused by a single…
It was about time I started using a cache in WordPress. After doing some research, I found out that WP-Super-Cache is sophisticated enough and works quite well, judging by the posts of many satisfied users. In this post I will outline the installation procedure step-by-step, because the installation instructions of the README file were a…