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 ##