Mike Andreasen
In the early 90’s ASCII art became a thing. It was a way to make logos using regular ASCII characters to decorate readme files and add some branding. Nowadays you can generate these banners using free tools like Patorjk‘s Text to ASCII Art Generator. I used it to create this snazzy banner that is displayed each time I … Learn more…
Monit is my favorite tool for monitoring WordPress servers. I use Monit to make sure all of my crucial processes like nginx or Apache is always running among other things. Monit will also send you email alerts. For maximum security you should not host an email server by yourself. There are multiple free email services like SendGrid … Learn more…
The default WordPress search uses MySQL which is not search-optimized and can be slow due to the structure of some WordPress and WooCommerce tables. Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database which uses a lucene structure with the goal of providing search results in real time. The ElasticPress plugin integrates WordPress with Elasticsearch to make WordPress searching awesomely fast. … Learn more…
Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS make stable and robust web servers. One critical advantage of using Linux over Windows is that you can upgrade software without having to reboot. The main exception to this is kernel upgrades which require reboots. KernelCare overcomes this limitation so you can maintain 100% uptime while running the … Learn more…
Varnish speeds up tons of WooCommerce shops all over the web with its reverse proxy caching acceleration. Several hosting companies like. WPEngine, Cloudways and Flywheel use Varnish to deliver uber fast page load times for their users. One of the potential pitfalls with Varnish can be making it work with e-commerce shops like WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads. Typically this involves … Learn more…