Some of you may be aware of my External WordPress Images plugin – it basically lets you avoid storing images in WordPress and instead the images are fetched from a remote location. This speeds up imports massively. But what if you are importing images and still want faster imports? Debugging WordPress Import Performance Firstly, I […]
I’d covered this a while ago, back on the AWD site, but it’s worth covering again. When Datafeedr Product Sets load products into your website, they don’t load images at that point in time. Instead, images are downloaded on-the-fly which means users will see slow performance if they are the first to view this particular […]
None of the WordPress migration or backup and restore plugins can handle huge sites reliably – you’ll run into timeout issues etc. Here’s how to migrate your huge sites reliably. The guide below presumes you have an origin WordPress server and a destination WordPress-ready (PHP+MySQL+Nginx) server. Use SSH and Screen You need to be able […]
If you have purchased, or are thinking of purchasing the Rocket Stack, here are the steps you need to take in order to get your droplet ready for us to build upon. You need your own SSH keys Firstly, you need to have your own SSH keys. If you are using PuttyGen to generate keys […]
If you’ve used tools like Pingdom, Google Page Speed Insights or GT Metrix, you’ll have seen that they can help figure out why ‘front-end’ performance of your site is slow. Front-end performance includes all the stuff that happens on the users browser. It doesn’t include things like PHP execution time or MySQL query time – […]
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Traffic spikes tend to hit one or two pages on your site, so to profit from traffic spikes you need to ensure everything is cachable and that everything is actually cached. Pages are only cachable if they do not have unique content per user. Unique content per user includes things like: Wishlist widget – if […]
Nginx is awesome – really fast compared to Apache. Cloudflare is also awesome – a fast and free for most CDN. If you are running WordPress however, there is a problem you have to deal with – namely WordPress Botnets. Countering Botnets Cloudflare itself helps to counter a lot of bot attacks, but really if […]
I’m busy working on a cool new plugin to let me chat directly with my customers. When I finally migrated the plugin over to my AWD site I found terrible performance. I know it’s not poor performance from my code (I would be very embarrassed if it was!) so I set about finding out why […]
The most reliable way to migrate your site is using the manual method in this article. However, the manual method can be tricky for less-technical users. The Duplicator plugin promises to make this easy, but I’ve found it to be incredibly buggy and has failed me on numerous ocassions. Because of this, I use UpdraftPlus […]
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Here’s what you will get by following this guide: The Server Pilot interface to manage your server A really fast server using the latest tech to make your WordPress site as fast as possible A real CRON job to process your imports/backups more quickly and efficiently Free SSL certificate Very low monthly cost – e.g. […]