Well, I just can’t stay away from DO and magento. I’m back at it this evening for one last round of work before having to move to something else for the majority of the weekend.
Redis Install:
DO After varnish and redis install (no nginx) (homepage)
Pingdom: 75 Grade, 1.2MB, 513ms, 200 requests
Webpagetest: As fon on cache static, 3.52s, .208TTFB, 200 requests 1.03MB
I didn’t notice as much of a performance difference with the redis install, however this may be much more apparent with the server loaded from traffic. The install went flawlessy. Thank you for the great tutorial. I did not see if you had one on varnish. I should have looked first. I will when I go back through. I’m going to destroy this server and start over with nginx/mariadb. I also need to generate some better passwords for everything if the end game is possibly utilizing this setup for a production store.
I can safely say that the DO restore/snapshot feature works really well. I’m trying to install something with composer that I’ve been fighting with and the install, if gone wrong, seems to mess up my module list for M2. I don’t know how to resolve that problem, so I end up having to restore. It’s an arduous process to try and toubleshoot given this result. It has nothing to do with DO or the installation up to this point. It is my inability or the package’s inability to correctly setup some params, likely mine though.
One thing to note on backups in the magento backend: Redirecting… As of 2.3.0 it is deprecated. I think finding a better solution for this is needed. Next to security, this is the most important thing IMO.