Website relaunched!
With traffic to this website steadily increasing, I’ve been spending some time attempting to look at how I could get more relevant and useful content surfaced onto the site’s homepage. Link to this post!
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Get started with WordPress & Nginx; 15 minutes from fresh OS to WordPress
In earlier posts I briefly talked about the dramatic performance improvements you can get by using Nginx to run your PHP / WordPress websites and touched on some of the vital steps that need to be done to start tuning WordPress for performance. If you’re interested in the idea of using Nginx but wondering where [...]
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Web Hosting – you don’t always get what you pay for…!
Just over a month ago now, we launched a pair of commercial WordPress websites for a local business initially using a top-end “dual hosted” Business plan provided by 1&1. We went this route for a number of reasons, one being the significant amount of advertising 1&1 seem to produce (applying the “they can’t be that bad” concept), [...]
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WordPress Performance Essentials – Shared Hosting or VPS
Following on from my last post, Getting Started with WordPress & Nginx, assuming you’ve decided to go down the VPS or Dedicated server route (rather than shared hosting) there are a few things you need to get installed as a priority to ensure good performance. If however you’re unable to use a virtual private server [...]
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Get started with high performance WordPress powered by Nginx
Wordpress started life as a simple blogging tool back in 2003, with a handful of users who began to gradually switch to WordPress from other contemporary blogging tools – preferring WordPress’s flexibility. Now, WordPress is one of the most popular web content management systems on the Internet, supporting millions of websites and apparently being used [...]
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