One of our most popular articles is our guide to building your own WordPress cluster. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can build your own WordPress cluster. Our cluster guide involves setting up multiple nodes using Unison for file replication, PerconaDB Xtra-DB for database replication and an nginx load balancer to balance the traffic […]
If you have a huge site, chances are you also do a lot of data processing – imports, exports, calculations etc. These kind of batch processing jobs that max out the CPU and disk are the mortal enemy of real-time transactions. Your web visitors demand real-time interaction and fast response from your site, so if […]
Everyone else measures theme performance using GT Metrix. If you go do a Google search now for ‘fastest WordPress themes’ or similar, you’ll find EVERY ‘review’ is just measuring GT Metrix or Pingdom scores. These scores only tell you client-side performance. If you want to skip the bullshit, you can go check prices for the Rehub theme […]
Over the 2 years of running WP Intense, I’ve had many questions from clients asking to review the performance of their website. In this article I’ll cover the most common issues and the easiest solutions to solve your performance and scalability. Uncached versus Cached Performance and TTFB Firstly, it’s important to understand why uncached performance […]
This article presumes you have a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server and you can log into it. I recommend using SSH keys if you can, but that doesn’t affect this article. Install PerconaDB Run the following commands to install PerconaDB: wget https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_0.1-4.<span class=”k”>$(</span>lsb_release -sc<span class=”k”>)</span>_all.debdpkg -i percona-release_0.1-4.$(lsb_release -sc)_all.debapt-get updateapt-get upgradeapt-get install percona-server-server-5.7 -q -y Note: The […]
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A former contractor who I trusted decided to write an article saying that WP Intense is a scam. Thank you Gary for bringing it my quick attention, but you all will have received an email from a former contractor who is disgruntled that I’m refusing to pay his last invoice. (I dispute his hours as […]
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’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 – […]
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 […]
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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. […]