nginx-pagespeed VS slickstack

I’m unreasonably proud of setting up automated patching for NGINX to include PageSpeed: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

The whole project is basically just a ‘sed’ command, but piecing everything together (where to get the source code, how to build nginx, make Debian packages, publish packages, etc) was a major effort.

I found myself in the valley between people who didn’t know and had no means of learning, and those who knew and for whom it was obvious. I’ve learned a lot.

Shameless plug: https://www.bbss.dev/posts/pagespeed/

GitHub repository with sources here: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

I recently returned to those notes to entirely automate the process using GitHub Actions. The work is open-source and available on GitHub.

Surprisingly few people seem to have heard of modpagespeed which I think can be attributed to an absence of packages coupled with the difficulty of installation.

I knew I had to build something like this the day GitHub actions came out, but haven't gotten around to it until the holidays!

While this HN thread is quite old now, it still provides some context on what it's all about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018861

GitHub repository with sources here: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

I recently came across SlickStrack, which is a utility for setting up WordPress on Ubuntu LTS. It sets it up with Nginx and some other configs, by which it attempts to enforce some best practices with regards to speed and security.

I know this page is like 5 years old and I cannot comment anymore (closed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14084265

......I never heard about that mod_PHP popularity was rising again compared with FPM pools. Is that totally fake news or that was true temporarily during 2017 only?

My understand that even cPanel hosting is still mostly using PHP-FPM with Apache and .htaccess (2021). Is there any case that using mod_PHP or disabling .htaccess can be faster than PHP-FPM or that is totally wrong.

For Nginx I know FPM is really the only option. And lots of arguments about ondemand, I see a lot of tutorials saying dynamic is better, but on this config file (PHP 7.4) and it says

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/modules/php-fpm/7.4/www-conf.txt

"ondemand is best for the majority of VPS servers (contrary to many online tutorials) .......only incredibly high traffic servers should use dynamic after tuning settings?

To be fair, in this case, SlickStack is the nginx configuration. It's maintained by nginx professionals and is readily available to view in their github repo. He didn't think it was necessary to spell it out in his forum post.