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So, it's been a while...

I've been busy with CPWN-related work. (Porting Wikia's crap is very hard, it's a f*cking mess!)

I have decided to revert back to Chyrp work for the moment. I need to finish up my planned Bootstrap theme for Chyrp. :$

The Dark Side: WordPress on a semi-dedicated server

I still love Chyrp. Really, I still do. And after this, I'm going back to Chyrp or Drupal for my next site.

So yesterday, I wanted to try WordPress as a CMS for an upcoming site instead of Chyrp, reason being that there are few themes for Chyrp and there are far more for WordPress. So I did.

That didn't work out well, however. 5-second page loads as an authenticated user and a good cacher (W3 Total Cache) only gets you far.

I run Debian wheezy (testing as of around July 4) and the main applications running on this server are Chyrp, DokuWiki and LOTS of MediaWiki, on Apache + mod_fcgid. Server has 768MB (yes) of RAM, a 2.53GHz single-core Pentium 4-class (yes again) CPU and aforementioned apps work very fast. (Well, perhaps not MediaWiki, but I observed some good speed from it.)

Fuck you, WordPress. Perhaps you need a good washing. And no, I am NOT switching to nginx. You guys make it delibrately hard to configure PHP.

A new town is in at the CPSW!

Welcome to Airtanta, my parody of this IRL city.

I'll open a new (Chyrp-based) blog for it soon.

--Tux