Wordpress Installing Buddypress

Are there any suggestions that would improve performance specific to Buddypress?
I'm using Beta version of centmin, php7.3

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Thanks guys - I'm trying to figure the best configuration for performance before I get too far along, @fabianski - great advice and something I've been looking in to. I am going to do just that since there is a lot of stuff that isn't really required, and I'm mostly concerned the performance is really good for mobile/tablet users.

I don't think caching is going to be massively helpful, there won't be many static pages, so i guess using Cloudflare is going to cause more problems than it solves? I've been considering benefits of the minifying css, js etc and ngx_pagespeed seems to one of the more useful additions. Image optimiser is a must.

I love open source, Its great having so many choices and options but its also double edge sword, so I'm going with 'less is more' approach. If anyone else have suggestions, I'm all ears!

@eva2000 - Thank you for all your work, you have saved so many of us such ball aches!!

 

Hi again @fabianski, thank you for your advice, I'm finally ready to start with the minefield of object caching and I have no shame in admitting I'm at a loss as to where to start. I'm looking for any information and tutorials and just thought it worth asking if you might be able to point me in the right direction?

Redis seems to be the way to go, I installed this during the Centmin option 22. I'm trying not to install too many WP plugins, and not have plugins that overlap in functionality.

Any pointers, your time permitting, would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

 

That is very helpful so many thanks! I will certainly document and share my method/testing/results here in the forums, its been a good learning experience and I'm having fun with it.

Eventually, I will take Cloudflare out of dev mode, as you said in your first reply, a dynamic script constantly updating cannot use page cache, at least, not without giving it thought. I'm hoping I can use object cache for the constantly updating stuff and page cache for the blog and elements that remain static.

I've been reading up on the nginx browser cache too, I believe, with some thought, it should be possible to squeeze as much performance as possible.

I installed Autoptimize for html, css and js minifying, this gave immediate and positive results for the front end therefore I definitely recommend that!