WordPress object cache is a common way to speed up your site. PHP-APCu on Ubuntu 16.04 can help achieve your goal of supreme WordPress or WooCommerce speed. This guide will show you how to install APCu Object Cache for PHP7 for WordPress on Ubuntu 16.04. There are three installation methods outlined here to best suit … Learn more…
A lot of website owners get used to cPanel when managing sites. One of the challenges of moving to a self-managed VPS like Digital Ocean or Vultr is finding a graphical interface to manage your server. For managing sites I use Webmin (installation guide for Ubuntu and Debian). I use nginx for all my WordPress … Learn more…
Redis-server can be used for WordPress object cache to speed up transient processing. Transients are temporary data objects used by WordPress which are stored in the MySQL database by defuault. Benchmarks reveal significant performance benefits with the PHP PECL Redis extension. This guide is for Ubuntu 16.04. It provides a secure Redis installation for WordPress after telnet exploits were … Learn more…
Whitelisting your IP address for login pages on WordPress ensures that only your IP address can access the login page. It is by far one of the best security methods for preventing brute force attacks on your website. Previously I have shown how to whitelist a single dynamic DNS address which is great security practice … Learn more…
Monit can be used to monitor your services on your VPS or dedicated server. You can use Monit to make sure nginx is always running in case it halts or freezes up – note this is very rare but it is better to be safe than sorry. Monit will check which port nginx is running on … Learn more…