Everything downstream depends on a clean, predictable baseline. These posts focus on getting the fundamentals right so you don’t debug the same problems repeatedly.
Getting started
Architecture decisions
- Apache vs Nginx for WordPress hosting
- Apache MPM: prefork vs event (and why PHP-FPM changes the answer)
- Why PHP runs in PHP-FPM instead of Apache
Common early failures
- Fixing Apache ↔ PHP-FPM socket mismatches
- Fixing WordPress uploads and updates with correct permissions
If you’re seeing issues immediately after launch, start here before tuning or scaling.