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 […]
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 $40 per month Digital Ocean server The server stack is the Rocket Stack The site is uncached so you can see and feel the raw […]
Over the 2 years of running WP Intense, I’ve had many questions from clients asking to review the performance of their website. In this article I’ll cover the most common issues and the easiest solutions to solve your performance and scalability. Uncached versus Cached Performance and TTFB Firstly, it’s important to understand why uncached performance […]
This article presumes you have a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server and you can log into it. I recommend using SSH keys if you can, but that doesn’t affect this article. Install PerconaDB Run the following commands to install PerconaDB: wget https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_0.1-4.<span class=”k”>$(</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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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. […]
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