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Speed up your Wordpress 1.000x with REDIS

I was bored so I decided it was time to upgrade my server with new distro and switch to NGIX. My current installation was Debina6 PHP5.3 running Lighty web server. My typical cached server response was around 1s. Considering my server uses 12 CPUs this was really bad. But the page load is low and I didn't care to much:) Having problem with apt-get dist-upgrade  in the past I decided rather to install fresh version of debian/jessi  I like jesse because I got accustomed with systemd and jessie is finnaly on board with it. I decided that I will also cut down on number of CPUs down to just 4 (AMD Buldozer 2Ghz) and 4Gb of ram. So my new LAMP stack is now LNMP. Just migrating to NGINX and enabling OPCache the typical response time became 3-4x faster on 3x less CPUs. I didn't bother with server load at this point since this was just learning exercise. Now my page load time was about 300ms. Things are getting brighter I thought. But I was not happy yet. I found a great t...