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From Harvard Law’s Dan Collis-Puro, a how-to on optimizing your WordPress MU install, using Nginx as a front-end proxy cache for WordPress:
We put an nginx caching proxy server in front of our wordpress mu install and sped it up dramatically – in some cases a thousandfold. I’ve packaged up a plugin, along with installation instructions here – WordPress Nginx proxy cache integrator.
You can read the full details on Dan’s blog and grab the plugin from the WordPress.org plugin directory.
[ Visit http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/djcp ]
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Howdy! The plugin is here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nginx-proxy-cache-integrator/
The plugin itself is fairly simple – the “magic” is mostly in nginx and how awesome it is as a proxy cache. You will probably want to tweak the cache timeout rules to fit your traffic – but that should be fairly easy to figure out if you look through the example nginx configs.
Great, thanks Dan. I updated the post with a link to the plugin as well.
Awesome! Thanks for the link
There isn’t a lot of information available about this sort of things. For whatever reason people seem to set it up, but never bother publishing how they did it or what the best route to doing it is 