The server needs to have run at minimum 24 hours before the mysql tuning can be performed. Other steps can be performed prior.
MySQL tuning
Direct SSH steps:wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/mysqltuner.pl perl mysqltuner.pl
Make a note to the side about the recommended settings provided and adjust values from the tuner in /etc/my.cnf
service mysql restart
Upgrade MySQL to MariaDB 10.0 or newer.
Apache configuration
From WHM, go to Service Configuration > Apache Configuration > Global Configuration. Adjust the following values accordingly:
Start Servers - 15 Minimum Spare Servers - 15 Maximum Spare Servers - 30 Server Limit - 1024 Max Request Workers - 300 Max Connections per Child - 15000
PHP handler “fcgi” will also help.
.htaccess modification
Add the following to the end of the .htaccess files for domains on the server:
## SPEEDBOOST ## # Use Mod_deflate to compress static files <ifmodule mod_deflate.c> <filesmatch "\.(js|css|ico|txt|htm|html|php)$"> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </filesmatch> </ifmodule> # Speed up caching FileETag MTime Size # Expires ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 366 days" # Future Expires Headers <filesmatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$"> Header set Expires "Sat, 27 Dec 2014 23:59:59 GMT" </filesmatch> <IfModule mod_headers.c> <FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$"> Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding </FilesMatch> </IfModule> AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 DefaultLanguage en-US SetEnv TZ America/Chicago ServerSignature Off <ifmodule mod_php4.c> php_value zlib.output_compression 16386 </ifmodule> ## EXPIRES CACHING ## <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year" ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days" </IfModule> ## EXPIRES CACHING ## ## Compression ## # compress text, html, javascript, css, xml: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript <FilesMatch "\.(flv|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|swf|js|css|pdf)$"> Header set Cache-Control max-age=2592000? </FilesMatch> <ifModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.* </ifModule> ## Compression ## ## SPEEDBOOST ##