Caddy is a another alternative to Apache or nginx . For me the biggest advantage is that it’s only one binary file to work with. It’s easy to run, setup and just “works”. It’s super modern – handles HTTP2 and automatic HTTPS encryption using let’s encrypt certificates. Obviously it has plenty of other features but we focus only on speed of deployment.
PHP 7.0 it’s already a while on the market. Let’s install it on EC2 instance. Here you can find a quick recipe:
Recently on CyberCity nice article appeared about using middle server to connect to our destination servers. Most of servers have firewalls which allow connect only from given pool of IP addresses. So tunnelling is very useful as long we are using it in smart way.
VIPS s a free image processing system (library) – in comparison to similar libraries is super fast, and does not neet much memory. Checkout this speed memory usage . In most cases you can install it by using this handy script:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lovell/sharp/master/preinstall.sh | sudo bash -
In some cases you have to install it from source.
Short Video about Apache Configuration with PHP on OS X Yosemite.
