12 tweakings for WHM/cPanel to speed up WordPress

   1. Turning Mailman off – WHM >> Server Configuration >>  Tweak Settings and turning it off

   2. Number of minutes between mail server queue runs (default is 60) – Setting it 120

   3. Default catch-all/default address behavior for new accounts” to fail

   4. Boxtrapper Spam Trap and SpamAssassin Spam Box delivery – off

   5. Analog Stats – off

   6. Conserve Memory at the expense of using more cpu/diskio – turn on

   7. WHM >> Service Configuration >> FTP Server Configuration – Check ‘no’ to ‘allow anonymous logins and ‘no’ to ‘anonymous uploads’

   8. WHM >> cPanel >> Manage Plugins – install spamdconf – then go to ‘Setup Spamd Startup Configuration’ – select option 2 ‘Maximum Children” to 2′

   9. Run your cron jobs at off peak hours.

  10. Install e Accelerator PHP accelerator (Recompile Apache with eAccelerator)

  11. Compiling Apache with mod_deflate Gzip Module

  12. Running Apache with the thread-based “Worker” MPM instead of the default “Prefork” MPM