Several of my recent posts have been discussing my recent move to Amazon EC2 and updating, first to a LEMP stack, and then to a LEPP stack, which all provided great speed increases. However, can you really be satisfied with a slightly faster loading WordPress blog, especially when my CPU was dying regularly with 100% usage? I certainly couldn’t, especially when YSlow was giving me such a bad rating that I had really no control over…
Firstly, a big shout out must go to Nesbot.com; he was so kind to share his custom blog code that he built using SlimPHP. Of course I had to add a few features myself – including my fancy Twitter slider – and an importer from my WordPress blog into this new blog structure.
If you look at the screenshot to the right, you can see exactly when I switched two other sites to use this code on the 22nd of September!