What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of servers that deliver content. The purpose of the CDN is to cache and more quickly serve static content based on the geographical location between the origin server (the server your site is hosted on) and the user making the request. This means when someone in Japan visits your website hosted in…

How does each of Web Hosting’s Resources Affect a Website?

How does each of Web Hosting’s Resources Affect a Website?

As we know all Linux Shared Hosting websites share the same resources on the server. Hence, to ensure the best performance for all sites there is a resource usage limit for CPU, RAM, I/O, inodes, and entry processes. This post explains how these resources affect your website, as well as situations where you might want to upgrade your hosting account….

What is WordPress Caching & How to Install W3 Total Cache Plugin

What is WordPress Caching & How to Install W3 Total Cache Plugin

In this post, we will learn about WordPress Caching and how to install a caching plugin such as W3 Total Cache. Caching is basically used to speed up WordPress websites. It improves the performance of a WordPress website in the fastest ways. To implement caching in WordPress websites, several caching plugins such as W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, Cache…

How to Troubleshoot a Slow WordPress Website

How to Troubleshoot a Slow WordPress Website

If your site was recently loading faster, then a recent change may have affected the load speed. If this is the case, you can undo the change and see if that helps the site load faster. If you aren’t sure what caused the slowdown, you can disable the various features of your site and add them back until the problem…

How to Optimize WordPress Images & Database

How to Optimize WordPress Images & Database

If your WordPress site seems slow, you can try optimizing the website’s heavy images & database to remove gaps in data (also known as overhead). This will increase speed if the database or images are at fault but of course, it doesn’t fix the scripting that initially created the overhead. So here are the following ways we can optimize images & database…

How to Test Speed of Your Website

How to Test Speed of Your Website

These days, it is required to continuously test the speed of your website so that it doesn’t get slow and loads within a few seconds of typing the website address in the address bar. To test your website’s speed, it’s a good idea to make sure it’s not just your local internet that’s causing the issue. By using website speed…