The server is just the localhost that I use for testing; it's Apache and
MySQL running on Ubuntu 18.04 on an HP Elite 3.0ghz with 4GB of RAM
<https://www.amazon.com/HP-Elite-Professional-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B0094JF1HA>.
I haven't really figured out what kind of hardware or software I want to
use for production, because I haven't done a lot of server administration
(I've typically just used a VPS when I needed webhosting, but perhaps my
needs now have expanded beyond that, because this is going to be a huge
wiki, the same scale as Wikipedia; although my main concern at the moment
is with making page saves, rather than page loads, more efficient, since I
don't necessarily anticipate having a lot of visitors from the Internet
reading the wiki, or else I'd be focusing more on stuff like caching; I
mostly just want to set up a workable proof-of-concept for the moment.)
I've heard that Wikimedia splits their enwiki database up among more than
one server; is that how they're able to handle several page saves per
second on the master?
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 8:19 AM Hershel Robinson <hershelsr(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
What's the
best way to boost performance ...
Depends on a myriad of factors, such as the OS, web server and
database and hardware etc.
The simplest answer is to increase your hardware resources, meaning if
the site has one CPU, give it two. For anything more specific, we
would need more details about the server software and hardware.
Hershel