I upgraded WordPress!
Among other things. I've actually been pretty busy on my server lately... it's really nice to have something that you can experiment on. Now I'm running nginx instead of apache2, mod_rails, php5-fcgi for WP, and a bunch of other goodies.
The best part is I am still under 256mb used total in a real world scenario. I had to make a couple of sacrifices to keep the usage low but for my small server I'm sure it won't matter and/or no one will notice anyway. Despite that, I'm pretty happy with the way it came out! I did a bunch of speed tests vs. memory usage with apache2 vs. nginx... I was pretty satisfied with the results but I'll write about the hard data later.
Until then most likely all that will be here is this blog post! I'm going to have to make good on my late New Year's resolution of trying to keep interesting things in this blog... I have a few posts to write!