Hello everyone, I've just set up a new Unraid server and plan to use it to host around 80 WordPress and HTML websites.

 

I'm currently using a Cloudflare to Nginx Proxy Manager to WordPress/MariaDB setup.

 

It's functioning, but I'm encountering a few problems.

 

1. I'm storing the WordPress sites in the 'appdata' folder on an SSD because when I tried using the Array, webpage loading times were slow (10-15 seconds). However, I'm unsure how to configure the mover to automatically transfer the WordPress sites to the Array each day for backup purposes.
2. I've established an internal network, which I've named 'Docknet'. I believe this should keep internal traffic off the Ethernet and enhance security, but I'm not confident it's set up correctly.

 

I have four screenshots of my setup. Can anyone provide advice or feedback on whether my configuration is correct?

 

 

Suggestions appreciated, I want to get it right before transition more site to this server.

 

Durableman

Edited December 5, 20232 yr by durableman
refined the question

Hey

I know it's an old topic.

But did you got any informations about the best practice for speed ? 

Thats pretty epic , ill give it a go now 2025 lol

 

On 12/4/2023 at 9:24 PM, durableman said:

I'm unsure how to configure the mover to automatically transfer the WordPress sites to the Array each day for backup purposes.

I know this is old, but it's not been answered and I came across it anyway, so anyone else (or even maybe still OP) looking for answers, this isn't how that bit works in that the mover will move the files, not back them up; for that, you'll need a different mechanism.

Unraid Mover

The Unraid Mover is a scheduled process that

moves files from the cache drive(s) to the main array to free up cache space, preventing transfers from failing when the cache fills up

. It runs on a user-defined schedule (or can be triggered manually), transferring files based on share settings, and maintains the folder structure but does not organize content. To ensure all data moves correctly, especially for Docker and VM shares, services should be disabled during the process.

To add to this, it looks to me, from your final screenshot, that you're asking Unraid to store the files in the cache, and then later asking the mover to move the files from the array, to the cache. I would expect this not to work since the files will already be on the cache.

I hope this is helpful in some way, to somebody, at some point in time! 👍🏻

I am not sure that you ever developed and answer to your speed/backup question. The only solution that I came across using version 7 out of the box - create a cache pool of 2 (even number) equally sized m2 disks built as RAID1 If you want even more speed use more disks and use striping (parallel streaming). Store all your high speed access required files there WITHOUT back up to the array which is protected by PARITY backup not RAID backup. Think of it this way. UNRAID despite its name offers both RAID and PARITY technology for data serving and security. PARITY is slower at serving but maximizes usable secured disk space. RAID (if configured in parallel disk flows) is faster at service but generally halves the storage space available from a group of disks. UnRaid allows you to create groups of disks (they call "pools" or "arrays" to try and differentiate between the backup technology used) that can achieve both serving speed and maximization of disk space usage.