Migrating your WordPress website to Cloudways safely and quickly
Follow our step-by-step preparation and post-migration guide along with visuals along every step of the way.
Server Stack
Speed up your WordPress site
At WP Intense we have been making WordPress plugins to speed up your website for the past 4 years. Originally, this started out of a desire to build massive affiliate stores and discovering that vanilla WooCommerce is too slow for this. We now have a suite of plugins to help optimise and scale your site […]
How to configure nginx for Yoast SEO sitemaps
If you’ve been following my WordPress fast stack guides, you’ll know I’m a big fan of nginx for the speed and scalability it provides. Some of you asked how to configure nginx with that stack guide to work with Yoast SEO sitemaps. The guide below covers our stacks, but will also work for any nginx […]
WordPress stack configuration, customisation and optimisation guide
In the article below, I cover various tips and tricks to help you run your WordPress stack smoothly and easily. It’s focused around my Rocket Stack build, but can be tailored to any stack really. If you’re experiencing performance issues, you will probably also find my performance analysis guide useful. Securing your website Securing your […]
Installing the fastest WordPress stack with Ubuntu 18.04 and MySQL 8
If you’ve been following my stack guides, you’ll have seen how popular my previous stack-build guides were. That’s because they were incredibly fast for the price of the server you’re using. My previous guides included installing Varnish and PerconaDB. In this guide, these have both been replaced with new and better alternatives. Update: Since writing […]
Adding shared disk storage to a WordPress cluster
If you’ve been following my WordPress cluster guides, you’ll know that I use GlusterFS or Unison to handle file replication between nodes in the cluster. This works well when there are not too many files per directory. But if you have thousands upon thousands of images in your uploads folder then GlusterFS can get a […]
How to maintain and manage a WordPress cluster
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 […]
How to: Setting up a WordPress cluster for huge sites
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 […]
Foundthru demo site of WP Intense plugins
The Foundthru site has been built to demonstrate the functionality and performance of the various plugins available from www.wpintense.com. Key Facts FoundThru contains over 800,000 affiliated products This server is a $40 per month Digital Ocean server The server stack is the Rocket Stack The site is uncached so you can see and feel the raw […]
How to Identify and Fix Scalability Issues on your WordPress Website
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 […]
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