Supercharge your website with Cherokee, Varnish, and MariaDB A New Stack: LVCMP Supercharge your website with Cherokee, Varnish, and MariaDB

L = Linux Linux, Ubuntu Server 64bit Running through VirtualBox Added Sources/PPAs so I have latest versions

V = Varnish Web Cache https://www.varnish-cache.org/ Varnish is a web application accelerator. Listens on Port 80

C = Cherokee Web Server http://cherokee-project.com/ Alternative to Apache/IIS A Couple other alternatives: Nginx Gwan lighttpd

M = Maria DB MariaDB – Drop-in replacement for MySQL https://mariadb.org/ If it's a drop in, why is it different? Clash of opinion when MySQL went to Oracle Works to maintain compatibility with same MySQL branch. New Features that are not present in MySQL Works with PHPMyAdmin

P = PHP PHP – PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor http://php.net/ We all (probably) know what this is Note: when using Cherokee, must be run as a CGI script, unlike Apache