Nginx is a high performance load balancer, web server and reverse proxy, which offers some real speed benefits for serving, in particular, static content.
Often allied with Apache, Nginx can operate really fast as a reverse proxy caching layer in a single or multi-server environment to deliver blazing fast and stable performance.
Silicon Dales use and recommend Nginx as part of a scalable setup to serve many WordPress and WooCommerce visitors and buyers quickly, effectively and stably.
Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding as recommendations. It should be apparent, below, which is which! Before getting started, if you’re here to assess a WooCommerce host, then you may be interested to check out our …
Are you looking to setup DNS records for Namecheap domains you may add in the future, so that your domain just resolves, and doesn’t go through that “free parking at Namecheap” phase, or the additional Nginx 500 response that sometimes happens? The instructions below will get you there. Preconfigure Namecheap DNS to Auto Add DNS …
