Ultra Wordpress | Tuning | Performance

All Wordpress themes have own graphic and CSS style files. If you are using content delivery network (CDN) services for distributing static content you should edit theme files and set-up full paths to load static content from CDN not your local web server software.

Using this method you will speed up file delivery and offload some processing load - your site will perform faster and with less latency. Also, don’t forget to edit CSS and PHP files to set-up full paths - avoid doing redirects as it will decrease your blog performance and probably cause some heavy load when your site … Continue Reading

It’s good to cache dynamic content and read it fast from the memory when needed. This is  why memcached caching system was founded. A pretty good, fast and easy to use memory based caching system - all data is stored in RAM, thus there are no more IO problems. Memory is cheap nowadays and you don’t need much to cache, for example, 10 last pages, frontpage, feed etc.

Memcached works like this - you set-up a key/value and use API to store it in memcached daemon. After, you can read it from the memcached daemon if you know the key. Pretty … Continue Reading

We have been testing out many Wordpress plugins and solutions for Wordpress blog hosting. To our surprise there are still many great plugins out there that can easily boost your Wordpress powered blog and lower the hosting expenses. Why pay more for expensive hardware upgrades if you can increase the performance of the current server?

Let’s look at eAccelerator WordPress Object Cache plugin that will boost your Wordpress  blog performance if you are running it on a dedicated server platform and have full access to server config. This plugin requires that you have access to server and … Continue Reading

Installing WP Super cache plugin is a must if you are serious about your blog performance and availability under high peak time traffic. When correctly configured and set-up this plugin will save your site if it’s get slammed with hundreds of requests per second due to Digg frontpage or even if your site becomes on Yahoo! Frontpage with thousands of requests per second.

We have seen this happening with our clients and with proper tuning and performance set-up it’s quite do able. Of course we are not speaking here about old Celeron 256MB desktop serving 200,000 pageviews in 2 to … Continue Reading

Setting up a Wordpress blog has become a day dream for most of the internet user who desire for making good deal of money through advertising campaign. Before some days, most of the people where not actually familiar with Wordpress and they never had much idea about it. Now, with the advancement and progress, money making blogs have become incredibly popular and Wordpress get into the top list. The bustling topic of today’s market is that, How to set up my first Wordpress blog? Here are some simple and effective tips that will make help you much better to set … Continue Reading