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

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

3. V = Varnish
Web Cache
Varnish is a web application accelerator.
Listens on Port 80

4. C = Cherokee
Web Server
Alternative to Apache/IIS
A Couple other alternatives:
Nginx
Gwan
lighttpd

5. M = Maria DB
MariaDB – Drop-in replacement for MySQL
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

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