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Paiyak Development

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Customer Stories

Learn why customers choose SpinupWP and how it's helping them win in their business.

How Matter Solutions Uses SpinupWP to Streamline Server Management and Enhance Team<span class="no-widows"> </span>Efficiency

How Matter Solutions Uses SpinupWP to Streamline Server Management and Enhance Team Efficiency

Director Ben Madden describes in his own words the challenging situation he faced and how SpinupWP has been a real savior for him, his team, and the business.

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Caillie

Jul 06, 2024
How Vendi Advertising Uses SpinupWP to Share Server Management Responsibilities Across Their<span class="no-widows"> </span>Team

How Vendi Advertising Uses SpinupWP to Share Server Management Responsibilities Across Their Team

Learn about the challenges Vendi was looking to solve and the solutions they tried before landing on SpinupWP.

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Caillie

Feb 01, 2024

Caching & Performance

Make your WordPress site sizzle with performance optimizations like caching and more.

How to Set Up Cloudflare’s Free CDN for<span class="no-widows"> </span>WordPress

How to Set Up Cloudflare’s Free CDN for WordPress

How to set up Cloudflare’s CDN for your WordPress site to improve performance and security.

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Andrew Cairns

Jun 07, 2024
Using New Relic to Debug a Slow WordPress<span class="no-widows"> </span>Site

Using New Relic to Debug a Slow WordPress Site

How to get started debugging a WordPress site's performance issues with New Relic's APM tool.

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Cameron Pavey

Mar 04, 2024
Top 3 WordPress Cache Plugins and How to Turbocharge Them with<span class="no-widows"> </span>Nginx

Top 3 WordPress Cache Plugins and How to Turbocharge Them with Nginx

How WordPress page caching plugins work, why they perform poorly in Nginx and how to serve cached pages directly from Nginx.

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Cameron Pavey

Nov 29, 2023
THE Best WordPress Image Optimizer<span class="no-widows"> </span>Plugin

THE Best WordPress Image Optimizer Plugin

Why EWWW Image Optimizer comes out on top compared to other similar WordPress image optimizer plugins.

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Cameron Pavey

Aug 16, 2023
WordPress Database Optimization: Adding Indexes to Custom<span class="no-widows"> </span>Tables

WordPress Database Optimization: Adding Indexes to Custom Tables

How to optimize databases with indexing, and why not having indexes can affect your WordPress site’s performance.

Brad Touesnard

May 19, 2022
Turn Your WordPress Site Into a Static Site With Aggressive Nginx Page<span class="no-widows"> </span>Caching

Turn Your WordPress Site Into a Static Site With Aggressive Nginx Page Caching

Configuring aggressive page caching rules for your WordPress site gives you most of the benefits of a static site without the downsides.

Brad Touesnard

Jan 27, 2022
Is a Load Balancer Overkill in Your WordPress Hosting<span class="no-widows"> </span>Setup?

Is a Load Balancer Overkill in Your WordPress Hosting Setup?

We’ll cover what load balancing is, some of the benefits and drawbacks along with misconceptions.

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Ashley Rich

Oct 08, 2021
WordPress Caching: All You Need To<span class="no-widows"> </span>Know

WordPress Caching: All You Need To Know

We go over the two major roles of caching, the various caching layers and some common gotchas you may run into.

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Ashley Rich

Mar 09, 2021
Varnish vs Nginx FastCGI Cache: Which is Best for<span class="no-widows"> </span>WordPress?

Varnish vs Nginx FastCGI Cache: Which is Best for WordPress?

The differences between Varnish and Nginx FastCGI cache with benchmarks to show which performs better.

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Ashley Rich

Feb 24, 2021
Full Page Caching With Personalized Dynamic<span class="no-widows"> </span>Content

Full Page Caching With Personalized Dynamic Content

We use Easy Digital Downloads to build a fictitious online store and configure page caching to improve load times.

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Ashley Rich

Jan 02, 2018
Microcaching WordPress in Nginx to Improve Server Requests by<span class="no-widows"> </span>2,400%

Microcaching WordPress in Nginx to Improve Server Requests by 2,400%

We demonstrate how to configure WordPress and bbPress with microcaching in Nginx.

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Ashley Rich

Apr 25, 2017
Performance Best Practices in the HTTP/2<span class="no-widows"> </span>Era

Performance Best Practices in the HTTP/2 Era

We cover what’s new in HTTP/2, some best practices and what you’ll need to change from HTTP/1.1.

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Ashley Rich

Jan 17, 2017
A CDN Isn’t a Silver Bullet for<span class="no-widows"> </span>Performance

A CDN Isn’t a Silver Bullet for Performance

We explain the major steps to optimizing your site for speed and explain when it’s appropriate to implement a CDN.

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Ashley Rich

Aug 09, 2016
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kwebdesign

@kwebdesign

I would pay the SpinupWP fees just for access to the articles written by this company. The service itself is great, but the documentation that guides you through such a complex subject, has been written in a way that it’s much easier to follow than any other resource I’ve ever come across.

Deploying WordPress

Everything you need to know to set up the perfect site deployment system.

The Ultimate Guide to Automated WordPress<span class="no-widows"> </span>Deployments

The Ultimate Guide to Automated WordPress Deployments

How to automate your WordPress site deployment from GitHub. With technical details on what's needed to prepare for this process.

Brad Touesnard

Apr 14, 2022
Advanced WordPress Deployments with<span class="no-widows"> </span>Buddy

Advanced WordPress Deployments with Buddy

How to enhance your automated deployment process with Buddy when you need a more complex solution.

Brad Touesnard

Nov 11, 2021

Scaling a WordPress Hosting Setup to Multiple Servers

For high traffic WordPress sites that have a lot of dynamic pages that can't be cached, scaling your hosting setup to multiple servers may be necessary.

Hosting WordPress Yourself at Scale Part 2 – Network<span class="no-widows"> </span>Filesystem

Hosting WordPress Yourself at Scale Part 2 – Network Filesystem

In part two of this series, we'll scale our WordPress app to handle more traffic, while building a replicated network filesystem.

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Ashley Rich

Oct 17, 2017
Hosting WordPress Yourself at Scale Part 1 – Dedicated Database<span class="no-widows"> </span>Server

Hosting WordPress Yourself at Scale Part 1 – Dedicated Database Server

In part one of this series, we’ll look at how we can scale our WordPress app to handle more traffic.

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Ashley Rich

Sep 05, 2017

Other Resources

Topics related to servers and WordPress we felt the urge to write about.

Drill Down into Disk Space Usage to Free Up Space on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the du<span class="no-widows"> </span>Command

Drill Down into Disk Space Usage to Free Up Space on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the du Command

Arm yourself with command line knowledge to hunt down disk space hogs, on either desktop or server.

Brad Touesnard

Jul 06, 2024
DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Akamai/Linode vs Hetzner vs AWS vs Google<span class="no-widows"> </span>Cloud

DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Akamai/Linode vs Hetzner vs AWS vs Google Cloud

We’ll compare ease of use and benchmark performance for three of the most popular server providers.

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Cameron Pavey

Jun 20, 2024
A Beginner’s Guide to SSH for WordPress<span class="no-widows"> </span>Users

A Beginner’s Guide to SSH for WordPress Users

How to log into a live server using SSH (Secure Shell) so you can examine logs, modify configuration files, diagnose performance problems, update software, and lots more.

Craig Buckler

Feb 16, 2024
How to Easily Edit Files Over SSH with<span class="no-widows"> </span>Nano

How to Easily Edit Files Over SSH with Nano

How to access a remote server via SSH and create or edit files with Nano, a standard text editor available on most Linux servers.

Chris Maiorana

Jan 18, 2024
How to Set Up MySQL Incremental<span class="no-widows"> </span>Backups

How to Set Up MySQL Incremental Backups

Learn how to combine incremental backups with full database backups and recover from failures quickly and thoroughly.

Brad Touesnard

Jul 13, 2023
How to Install Ansible and Automate Your Ubuntu 22.04 Server<span class="no-widows"> </span>Setup

How to Install Ansible and Automate Your Ubuntu 22.04 Server Setup

Why you might want to use Ansible as your automation engine, how to install it and get it set up.

Brad Touesnard

Apr 24, 2023
Using Laravel Valet to Set Up Local WordPress Dev in<span class="no-widows"> </span>Minutes

Using Laravel Valet to Set Up Local WordPress Dev in Minutes

What Laravel Valet does (and doesn’t), and how to install Valet and use it to serve up a local WordPress site.

Brad Touesnard

Mar 07, 2023
What Are WAFs? A Detailed Look at Web Application<span class="no-widows"> </span>Firewalls

What Are WAFs? A Detailed Look at Web Application Firewalls

How WAFs work, the types of threats they protect against, the pros and cons of various kinds of WAFs, and whether you should consider installing one.

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James Clark

Mar 17, 2022
Headless WordPress: How to Set Up and Deploy a Gatsby<span class="no-widows"> </span>Site

Headless WordPress: How to Set Up and Deploy a Gatsby Site

What Gatsby is, why you should think about it for your next Headless WordPress project, and how to set it up.

Brad Touesnard

Oct 07, 2021
7 Reasons to Host WordPress<span class="no-widows"> </span>Yourself

7 Reasons to Host WordPress Yourself

Why host WordPress yourself? Understand the options and benefits so you can decide whether it's right for you.

Brad Touesnard

Mar 10, 2021
Automation for the Laziest WordPress Developer: Git Hooks<span class="no-widows"> </span>Examples

Automation for the Laziest WordPress Developer: Git Hooks Examples

Guest author Curtis McHale discusses what git hooks do and how they work as well as getting your first git hook set up.

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Curtis McHale

Dec 17, 2019

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