The WordPress Managed Hosting world is getting even bigger players, like DreamHost which has just announced a new WordPress-specific hosting option called DreamPress: DreamPress is a highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service that comes pre-configured to stand up to higher traffic loads and serve up server-intensive themes and plugins. This means it’s engineered for speed, advanced security, excellent reliability, and ease of use – all features that were created to make your lives easier! So, what do you get Bob for your money’s worth?
The WordPress Weekend Roundup
It’s been an insane week – and it’s been nothing short of a miracle. Finishing our Epic Gaming Mural, Holding our Jelly Event, organizing and finishing out WordCamp Atlanta (and the VIP after party), launching a Kickstarter Campaign, and managing all the other “normal” things in life – yikes, it’s just been insanity! We’ve been getting a few hours of sleep each night, if we’re lucky. As you can see, Chris is trying to recover… at 8:00am in the morning. But without further ado, here you go:
Roshan Bhattarai: Scaling for Large Traffic
Have a growing WordPress blog or site as well as a growing monthly cost to support it? If that’s you and you’d much rather be on the side of the former rather than the latter then this presentation by Roshan might be of use. Because all of us would love for our blogs to scale while keeping the costs low, right? Roshan borrows some wisdom Ewan Leith as well to provide us a solution using: Nginx Varnish or Squid PHP-FMP Sphinx CDN Opcode Cache (APC) Take a look at the presentation including the slides after the jump. Hope that helps! Thanks […]
MaxCDN Redesign Built on WordPress, WP Engine
MaxCDN, a content delivery network solution has recently redesigned their homepage and site and has shared their learnings on how they leveraged WordPress (and other technologies) to achieve a sub-half-second (.5s) load time: There are literally a ton of factors how we changed to get such a fast page load. To break it down, we’ll discuss what we did with the code itself, CSS styling, JavaScript, server/hosting, and the images to achieve this incredible page speed. They go on and share their techniques and implementation strategy that you could leverage for your own use. We’re writing about it because they […]
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