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Caching & Performance

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

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

WordPress Database Optimization: Adding Indexes to Custom Tables

Database indexing is an often forgotten but valuable practice when managing custom tables. Just like the index of a book, an index greatly improves the speed of retrieving data from your database tables. It should be the first thing you think about when you create a custom table. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how...

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?

In this article, we’ll cover what load balancing is, some of the benefits and drawbacks along with misconceptions.

Ashley Rich

Oct 08, 2021
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

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

Ashley Rich

Sep 30, 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.

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?

We go over the differences between Varnish and Nginx FastCGI cache, why we chose them and share some benchmarks to show which performs better.

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.

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%

In this article, we demonstrate how to configure WordPress and bbPress with microcaching in Nginx.

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.

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.

Ashley Rich

Aug 09, 2016

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

Like any CMS or web application, deploying WordPress can be a complex affair. Missing files during an upload can cause errors, incorrectly migrating the database can cause data loss, and moving a large library of media files can take a long time. In each of these cases, your site may become unusable for your visitors,...

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 the first post of this series, we started scaling our WordPress app to handle more traffic by extracting the database to a separate server so that we can eventually add multiple app servers to our infrastructure. In this post we’re going to do the same for the filesystem and also introduce a level of...

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 this series we’re going to look at how we can scale our WordPress app to handle more traffic. Throughout the course of this series, we’ll build upon what we learned in Hosting WordPress Yourself and introduce more advanced concepts such as load balancing, MySQL replication and distributed filesystems. So if you haven’t yet gone...

Ashley Rich

Sep 05, 2017
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Other Resources

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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

We break down 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

Laravel Valet’s minimalist approach makes it a great choice for local WordPress development. In this tutorial, I’ll cover what Valet does (and what it doesn’t), then I’ll show you how to install Valet and use it to serve up a local WordPress site. Setting up a local development environment used to be a major hurdle....

Brad Touesnard

Mar 07, 2023
Drill Down into Disk Space Usage to Free Up Space on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the du<span class="no-widows"> </span>Command

Drill Down into Disk Space Usage to Free Up Space on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the du Command

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

Brad Touesnard

May 11, 2022
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.

James Clark

Mar 17, 2022
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

Feb 10, 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

Did you know that Gatsby can pull in content from many different sources, including your WordPress site? Learn what Gatsby is, how to set it up, and how to deploy.

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
DigitalOcean vs AWS vs Google Cloud vs Akamai (formerly Linode) vs Vultr: Which is Best for Hosting<span class="no-widows"> </span>WordPress?

DigitalOcean vs AWS vs Google Cloud vs Akamai (formerly Linode) vs Vultr: Which is Best for Hosting WordPress?

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

Ashley Rich

Nov 17, 2020
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.

Curtis McHale

Dec 17, 2019

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