Best cPanel PHP Setup

pat

I am running cPanel on a solid and fairly high-performance VPS. I have 2gb of Ram along with 512 mb of vSwap along with 4 strong cores.

I am running apache + nginx via http://nginxcp.com/. I am also running eAccelerator. (good/bad)?

I am looking for the best php setup for the VPS. Ruid2? FastCGI? suPHP? DSO? CGI? SuEXEC on or off?

I know many providers offer some shared or reseller hosting so I'm looking for feedback based on cPanel experience.

Thanks :-)

natestamm

I think you can get away using some of the profile selections in WHM-here is a good example that I use a lot.

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Apache: 
  optmods: 
    Access: 1
    Actions: 1
    Alias: 1
    Asis: 0
    AuthAnon: 0
    AuthDB: 0
    AuthDBM: 0
    AuthDigest: 0
    AuthLDAP: 0
    AuthnAlias: 0
    AuthnAnon: 0
    AuthnDBD: 0
    AuthnDBM: 0
    AuthnDefault: 0
    AuthnzLDAP: 0
    AuthzDBM: 0
    AuthzHost: 1
    AuthzOwner: 0
    Autoindex: 1
    Bucketeer: 0
    Cache: 0
    CaseFilter: 0
    CaseFilterIn: 0
    CernMeta: 0
    CharsetLite: 0
    DAVFs: 0
    DAVLock: 0
    DBD: 0
    DIR: 1
    Dav: 0
    Deflate: 0
    DiskCache: 0
    Distcache: 0
    Dumpio: 0
    Echo: 0
    Env: 0
    Expires: 1
    ExtFilter: 0
    Fastcgi: 0
    FileCache: 0
    Fileprotect: 1
    Frontpage: 1
    Headers: 1
    Ident: 0
    Imagemap: 0
    LDAP: 0
    LogAgent: 0
    LogConfig: 1
    LogForensic: 0
    LogReferer: 0
    MPMEvent: 0
    MPMLeader: 0
    MPMPerchild: 0
    MPMPrefork: 0
    MPMThreadpool: 0
    MPMWorker: 0
    MemCache: 0
    Mime: 1
    MimeMagic: 0
    MmapStatic: 0
    Negotiation: 1
    OptionalFnExport: 0
    OptionalFnImport: 0
    OptionalHookExport: 0
    OptionalHookImport: 0
    PHPAsUser: 1
    Proxy: 1
    RaiseFDSetsize: 0
    RaiseHardServerLimit: 0
    Rewrite: 0
    Setenvif: 1
    Speling: 0
    Status: 1
    SymlinkProtection: 0
    UniqueId: 0
    Userdir: 1
    Usertrack: 0
    Version: 0
    VhostAlias: 0
    Watchdog: 0
  version: 2_2
Cpanel::Easy::EAccelerator: 0
Cpanel::Easy::IonCubeLoader: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModBandwidth: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModGzip: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModJk5: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModMono: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModMono2: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModPerl: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModQos: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModRuid2: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModSec: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::2_17: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::2_9: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::3_23: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::3_24: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::4_14: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Bcmath: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Bz2: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::CGI: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Calendar: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Curl: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::CurlSSL: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Curlwrappers: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::DBX: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Dbase: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::DiscardPath: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Enchant: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Exif: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Expat: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::FTP: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Fastcgi: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::FileInfo: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::ForceCGIRedirect: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::GD: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Gettext: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::HardPHP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Iconv: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Imap: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Intl: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Java: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MM: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MagicQuotes: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MailHeaders: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mbregex: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mbstring: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mcrypt: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MemoryLimit: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mhash: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MimeMagic: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Ming: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mysql: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MysqlOfSystem: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mysqli: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Openssl: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PDFLib: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PDO: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PDOMySQL: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::POSIX: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PathInfoCheck: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Pear: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Pgsql: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Phar: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Pspell: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SNMP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SOAP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SQLite3: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SafeMode: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SafePHPCGI: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SilenceDeprecatedPatch: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Sockets: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Swf: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SysTimezone: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::TTF: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Tidy: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Versioning: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Wddx: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::WithoutIconv: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::XSL: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::XmlRPC: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::ZendMultibyte: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Zip: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Zlib: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::cPPHPOpts: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHPSuHosin: 0
Cpanel::Easy::SourceGuardian: 0
Cpanel::Easy::Xcache: 0
Cpanel::Easy::Zendopt: 0
_meta: 
  implies: 
    changed: {}

    circles: {}

  name: PHP Image Manipulation (1)
  note: This uses the Basic configuration and adds the GD and FreeType libraries to PHP. GD and FreeType are used for image and font manipulation.
  

CentrioHost

I prefer XCache rather than EC. suPHP with SUEXEC enabled.

George_Fusioned

XCache (or any other PHP opcode) doesn't work with suPHP.

George_Fusioned

@XTREME said:
cpanel is better for use, i recommend

Did you even read the first post?

camarg

If you host many low traffic sites go for suphp, else fcgi.
As @George_Fusioned already mentioned PHP-accelerators don't work with suphp

upfreak

For the above reason, i use php as DSO with RUID2 enabled. My sites run with a mix of APC, Memcache and nginx for caching

thuvienvps

@XTREME said:
cpanel is better for use, i recommend

LOL

pat

So what's the consensus?

@XTREME said:
cpanel is better for use, i recommend

Thanks man! :-) lol

@camarg said:
If you host many low traffic sites go for suphp, else fcgi.

Low to Medium Traffic. No site gets more than 5,000 views a day. I have read that with mod_RUID2 there's no real advantage of running fcgi.

@peppr said:
For the above reason, i use php as DSO with RUID2 enabled. My sites run with a mix of APC, Memcache and nginx for caching.

I am also using DSO with Mod_RUID2 enabled and also am running nGinx proxy. However, I am curious to know how much traffic is needed for something like APC, Memchace or eAccelerator to noticeably increase speeds and decrease load.

pat

@peppr said:
For the above reason, i use php as DSO with RUID2 enabled. My sites run with a mix of APC, Memcache and nginx for caching

cPanel says that in order to enable mod_ruid2 Memcache must be disabled?