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I've been told a WP-install can easily consume 2 Gigs of memory when editing in visual composers in WP. When my Pi only has 4 GB available and on top on that I'm running MariaDB (NOT Nginx), then there really shouldn't be much RAM left for anything else should there?

Or did I get bad advise and is WP perfectly capable of running fast on efficiently on MariaDB and an RPi 4 ?

And if not: What is there of better alternatives to running a webserver on a PI? Preferably a CMS of some sort.

IT Blacksmith
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  • MariaDB (NOT Nginx) ... so you're running a database not a web server? - you still need a web server – Jaromanda X Jan 19 '20 at 00:17
  • No I have it All running right now on https://it.sucks.dk - wp installed snd everything. But I have heard rumours about Nginx being much faster for use theman MariaDB - is this true? I really meant with my my last question: is CMS too much for the Pi too handle efficiently or is there an alternstive CMS it will load really fast? – IT Blacksmith Jan 19 '20 at 00:24
  • again, you seem to be comparing a http server (nginx) with a database (mariadb) – Jaromanda X Jan 19 '20 at 00:25
  • I am I can see that.. I dodnt mean mariaDB I meant apache2 :-D sorry for the confusion... (Been doing this all day) – IT Blacksmith Jan 19 '20 at 00:30
  • So: is nginx faster and better then apache for the rpi 4? – IT Blacksmith Jan 19 '20 at 00:31
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    yes, use nginx instead of apache - but that's just personal opinion. Also not sure if WP is written such that it actually needs apache specifically - how about you try it and see which works better - there is also lighttpd which, as you can tell from the name, claims to be a light (on resources) http server - though it doesn't have as many "features" as apache or nginx, but not sure if the lacking features are required for WP, again, give it a go, see what happens – Jaromanda X Jan 19 '20 at 00:31
  • I tried nginx once but failed some time after I got it to work.. dont know how it stopped working, maybe I dod something wrong. Will try nginx - thx. Edit: do you know any CMS which is lighter to run than WP? It doesn't need to have many extensions. – IT Blacksmith Jan 19 '20 at 06:24
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    I know of nothing beyond the google results for lightweight CMS – Jaromanda X Jan 19 '20 at 07:40
  • Kudo for pointing out my lazyness in googling it myself. This thred can be closed now I think :) – IT Blacksmith Jan 19 '20 at 07:53
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    @ITBlacksmith "This thread can be closed now I think.", I think it would be helpful if you test and tell the summary on an answer here. Others could read your answers and findings. || In addition, try google => online website analysis tool. There is a lot of website in this case and you can get a statistic of your site. In this link I have tested your site. Check the result. The size is too large and the load time is kind of awful. – M. Rostami Jan 19 '20 at 11:00
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    "Is nginx faster and better than apache for the rpi 4?", The official raspberry pi site suggests LAMP which is Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. – M. Rostami Jan 19 '20 at 11:04
  • THANK you @M. Rostami - that's exacctly the kind of answer and tools I was hoping to get - now I can try something out and get back to you when I has improven on my load time for instance. – IT Blacksmith Jan 19 '20 at 12:38

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Google it: online website analysis tool. There is a lot of website in this case and you can get a statistic of your site. In this link, I have tested your site. Check the result. The size is too large and the load time is kind of awful.

Is nginx faster and better than apache for the rpi 4?

The official raspberry pi website suggests LAMP which is Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.

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