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Modern web applications must handle thousands of simultaneous users without slowing down or crashing. If you're running PHP-based stacks (WordPress, Laravel, Magento, custom apps), PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is the backbone of your performance. Yet most servers run with default settings — which are almost always wrong for high-concurrency tr...