The PHP 8 benchmarks are looking really sexy! More performance improvements are always welcome over PHP 7.4 🙂 Check out this in-depth list of the new PHP 8 features. Remember to test the new PHP 8.1 in a staging environment for your WordPress or WooCommerce site first, ideally on a separate server. If you need … Learn more…
You may want to separate your server-side nginx cache between mobile and desktop users determined by their browser. This guide will show you how to configure your nginx fastcgi or reverse proxy cache to have separate caches for mobile and desktop user agents. You can make this work for Redis cache integrated with nginx too. … Learn more…
It is always awesome when new versions of PHP come out so we can test the performance improvements for WordPress and WooCommerce! According to these benchmarks PHP 7.4 took around 500 ms of execution time for the same task that PHP 7.2 took over 650 ms to complete! Remember to test the new PHP 7.4 … Learn more…
The X-Robots-Tag header is a very important HTTP Header for SEO. If you make copies of sites and put them online so your clients or testers can view them then you do not want to be penalized by Google for having duplicate content. One way to prevent this is to use the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header … Learn more…
WordPress is gaining in popularity and therefore the number of attacks specific to WordPress keep increasing. I manage servers for some political websites which get attacked relentlessly so that means I get to create new firewall rules and rate limiting directives to help keep the site running – very fun! Recently this site was being … Learn more…