<story><title>How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire</title><url>http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>My Wordpress blog used to go down because of HN. I fixed that as follows.&lt;p&gt;1. Use the Wordpress supercache plugin.&lt;p&gt;2. Put Apache behind Nginx, and limit the number of Apache processes to ~6. This way you&amp;#x27;re effectively using Apache as a &amp;quot;PHP app server&amp;quot;, simulating an architecture similar to Passenger&amp;#x2F;Unicorn. Nginx acts only as a buffering reverse proxy, shielding Apache from slow clients.&lt;p&gt;Why this instead of running Wordpress&amp;#x2F;PHP through Nginx using php-fpm? It&amp;#x27;s because Apache is just easier: mod_rewrite rules work automatically, etc.</text></item><item><author>JeremyMorgan</author><text>The first time I got a front page link to my site on HN, it did this exact same thing, which prompted me to move away from Wordpress. Static HTML ever since.&lt;p&gt;But to comment on the article, I think this is a fantastic idea. I do wonder though how he found so many enthusiastic people. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just a new era, but I have a hard time finding people who even want to do a 1 hour coding challenge. He got these folks who were willing to learn something, and build and spend DAYS on it? It&amp;#x27;s awesome but it seems unlikely these days.&lt;p&gt;Taking that kind of time to choose the right person, then helping the other people network with other APL folks... that just spreads good vibes all around. I would like to see the &amp;quot;care more&amp;quot; trend spread in our industry. Even now with a programmer shortage companies are still unicorn hunting and making people jump through stupid hoops for jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not even sure step 2 is necessary, my WP blog has hit HN a few times and the supercache plugin alone has been more than sufficient to handle it.&lt;p&gt;Really the big problem at this point is that stock WordPress falling over under even moderate traffic is such a common experience that having caching broken out into an optional plugin doesn&amp;#x27;t make a whole lot of sense. WP should probably ship with at least a basic caching solution built in.</text></comment>
<story><title>How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire</title><url>http://brookeallen.com/pages/archives/1234</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>My Wordpress blog used to go down because of HN. I fixed that as follows.&lt;p&gt;1. Use the Wordpress supercache plugin.&lt;p&gt;2. Put Apache behind Nginx, and limit the number of Apache processes to ~6. This way you&amp;#x27;re effectively using Apache as a &amp;quot;PHP app server&amp;quot;, simulating an architecture similar to Passenger&amp;#x2F;Unicorn. Nginx acts only as a buffering reverse proxy, shielding Apache from slow clients.&lt;p&gt;Why this instead of running Wordpress&amp;#x2F;PHP through Nginx using php-fpm? It&amp;#x27;s because Apache is just easier: mod_rewrite rules work automatically, etc.</text></item><item><author>JeremyMorgan</author><text>The first time I got a front page link to my site on HN, it did this exact same thing, which prompted me to move away from Wordpress. Static HTML ever since.&lt;p&gt;But to comment on the article, I think this is a fantastic idea. I do wonder though how he found so many enthusiastic people. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just a new era, but I have a hard time finding people who even want to do a 1 hour coding challenge. He got these folks who were willing to learn something, and build and spend DAYS on it? It&amp;#x27;s awesome but it seems unlikely these days.&lt;p&gt;Taking that kind of time to choose the right person, then helping the other people network with other APL folks... that just spreads good vibes all around. I would like to see the &amp;quot;care more&amp;quot; trend spread in our industry. Even now with a programmer shortage companies are still unicorn hunting and making people jump through stupid hoops for jobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nilved</author><text>This is first time I&amp;#x27;ve seen the words &amp;quot;Apache is just easier&amp;quot; in that arrangement.  I think php-fpm is significantly easier to set up than Apache and expect it to be more performant with less resources.</text></comment>