Ultra Wordpress | Tuning | Performance http://www.ultrawordpress.com Speed up your Wordpress blog. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:56:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Boosting your wordpress blog performance with eAccelerator Object Cache http://www.ultrawordpress.com/boosting-your-wordpress-blog-performance-with-eaccelerator-object-cache/ http://www.ultrawordpress.com/boosting-your-wordpress-blog-performance-with-eaccelerator-object-cache/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:52:48 +0000 John http://www.ultrawordpress.com/?p=52 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 configure eAccelerator as well as set-up /tmp directory so that eAccelerator can use it to store it’s cache.

Remember that for many blogs this plugin will not provide much performance boost and may even slow down your blog. In our tests this plugin had a real performance boost (over 200%) for our test blog when one page was accessed multiple times, e.g. in Digg frontpage landing or the blog index page.

If you have a large blog with multiple pages you may experience some slow downs and higher load when search engine bots are indexing your site. If you have a lot of organic search engine traffic your visitors may experience slow downs when particular page is accessed only once.

]]> http://www.ultrawordpress.com/boosting-your-wordpress-blog-performance-with-eaccelerator-object-cache/feed/ WP Super Cache plugin for best performance http://www.ultrawordpress.com/wp-super-cache-plugin-for-best-performance/ http://www.ultrawordpress.com/wp-super-cache-plugin-for-best-performance/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:03:21 +0000 John http://www.ultrawordpress.com/?p=49 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 4 hours with over million of hits (including static and dynamic content), but a medium powered server with 1 GB of RAM and P4+ processor tuned to withstand Digg or SlashDot effect. Please keep in mind that network stack, OS, web server, PHP and blog software in our case Wordpress must be configured with performance in mind.

The typical high-performance Wordpress set-up must include front-end proxy or load balancing device, preferable that can cache or at least do custom URL rewrites to back end servers running for example Apache. The static content can be served directly without Apache help - we all know how big resource hog the Apache is. Anyway, this is just an introduction article to Wordpress performance, I would say. Stay tuned for more detailed posts and howto articles soon available on our web site.

]]> http://www.ultrawordpress.com/wp-super-cache-plugin-for-best-performance/feed/ Setting up your first Wordpress blog http://www.ultrawordpress.com/setting-up-your-first-wordpress-blog/ http://www.ultrawordpress.com/setting-up-your-first-wordpress-blog/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:08:13 +0000 John http://www.ultrawordpress.com/?p=42 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 up your first word press blog.

If you are curious in writing articles and post, you can better buy your personal domain and install Wordpress. Further you can add plugins and themes of course. Setting your Wordpress blog is quite simple and it could be achieved in 3 simple steps!

How to choose the best domain name?

Selecting a domain name will involve quite several factors. Primarily you must consider the major objective of your blog and think what your site is going to focus on? Is your site is designed with the objective of generating money through social blogging or it is about to generate revenue about specific post? The difference in setting up the Wordpress blog will have good volume of variation and ensure to get into a closer observation while choosing the domain for your Wordpress blog.

Branding:

The next important line of work that should be considered is “Branding”. It is good to pick a domain name that ultimately works online, better pick a domain that is closely memorable. This is a simple and effective way to make good deal of profit, particularly through Wordpress blogging.

Keyword Rich Domains:

Wow! This is one of the most important factors that you must consider while setting up a wordpress blog. Purchase a domain that is keyword rich, so that you will have more web visitors in long run and easier branding. Ranking and positioning are solely dependent on keywords and never miss to focus on these.

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