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What is SlickStack?

SlickStack is a free LEMP stack automation script written in Bash designed to enhance and simplify WordPress provisioning, performance, and security.
SlickStack is a tool in the Server Configuration and Automation category of a tech stack.
SlickStack is an open source tool with 591 GitHub stars and 111 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to SlickStack's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses SlickStack?

Companies

Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use SlickStack.

SlickStack Integrations

Git, MySQL, PHP, NGINX, and Ubuntu are some of the popular tools that integrate with SlickStack. Here's a list of all 15 tools that integrate with SlickStack.
Pros of SlickStack
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WordPress exclusive
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Designed for Ubuntu LTS
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Dependency-free
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Idempotent installation
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Works on any cloud VPS network
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Free OpenSSL certificates (that never expire)
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100% open source (better security and transparency)
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Native Bash commands (no learning new shortcuts)
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Includes MU plugins for technical SEO, etc
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Built-in WordPress plugin blacklist
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Redis object caching enabled by default
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Nginx FastCGI Cache enabled by default

SlickStack's Features

  • CloudFlare
  • Ubuntu
  • Nginx
  • OpenSSL
  • FastCGI Cache
  • PHP-FPM
  • Zend OPcache
  • WordPress
  • WP-CLI
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Git
  • ClamAV
  • UFW Firewall

SlickStack Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to SlickStack?
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Dotenv
It is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Storing configuration in the environment separate from code is based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology.
Capistrano
Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows.
Chef
Chef enables you to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions. Freely move applications and configurations from one cloud to another. Chef is integrated with all major cloud providers including Amazon EC2, VMWare, IBM Smartcloud, Rackspace, OpenStack, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Google Compute Engine, Joyent Cloud and others.
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SlickStack's Followers
7 developers follow SlickStack to keep up with related blogs and decisions.