by Rahul Nagare | Jan 14, 2020 | Linux, Scaling, WordPress
In 2020 it is common knowledge that slow websites poorly affect revenue, brand loyalty, and conversions. Do you know what impacts conversions even more? Outages! An unreachable website can’t generate new conversions, revenue, or brand loyalty. There are a wide...
by Rahul Nagare | Jan 13, 2020 | Linux, Scaling, WordPress
Everyone agrees that backups are essential. Not only for websites but also for desktops, laptops, phones, and even git repositories. Yet, when it comes to protecting mission-critical WordPress sites, the backup solutions in place are often inadequate. More often than...
by Rahul Nagare | Jan 9, 2020 | Linux, Scaling, WordPress
Maintaining a high traffic WordPress or WooCommerce site takes a lot of work. While automation takes care of tasks such as log rotation, daily backups, and monitoring, ongoing performance optimization still requires manual attention. When you are working on a...
by Rahul Nagare | Jan 7, 2020 | Linux, Scaling, WordPress
As your WordPress site starts to grow, there comes the point where current server resources are no longer sufficient. WordPress starts to slow down, there are occasional timeouts, and your marketing team has to limit their campaigns to avoid taking the site offline....
by Rahul Nagare | Jan 3, 2020 | Linux, Performance, Scaling
There are quite a few settings one can tweak at the distribution layer to make the websites load faster. More often than not, the returns from these tweaks are close to zero if not outright negative. Things like adjusting TCP buffers, tuning sysctl.conf, changing...
by Rahul Nagare | Jan 1, 2020 | Linux, Performance, Scaling
When it comes to scaling any PHP application, this is a common question. Apache or Nginx or Apache with Nginx? I think this is as important a question as tabs vs. spaces. Apache gets much hate for not being scalable or reliable. This hate comes from the old days of...
