slickstack VS WordOps

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.

https://wordops.net is also nice to automate parts, if you don't mind that it's all running under the same user.

A simple efficient CLI stack that works well is WordOps.

Also, WordOps

Si te lo queres hostear vos: https://wordops.net/

I also just wanna give a shout out to WordOps, super simple to use, free and open source. Deploying a website with redis or fastcgi caching and SSL takes just a few seconds. Great support community too.

There's a brotli setting on CF that ignores your nginx's settings in speed -> optimizations -> brotoli (needs to have white on green checkmark). But for nginx's settings itself, I have this file as /etc/nginx/conf.d/brotli.conf assuming your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf has include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;.

You can put it on a $5-10 server on linode and upgrade to $20 server if you need to anytime. For an extra $5 it'll include daily backups, and one on demand backup. Last time I had to set it up it took me about an hour to get it running with a LEMP (Nginx, mariadb as a drop in replacement of mysql) stack from https://wordops.net/. But if you want it to stay htaccess compatible that a majority of wordpress plugins expect, should run with a litespeed stack.

If you're looking to cut costs I'd highly recommend checking out https://wordops.net/

I highly recommend using WordOps to manage the server. It makes setting up fast & secure Wordpress sites extremely easy.