Using Google AdWords to gain traffic for your WordPress or WooCommerce site can increase loyal viewers and customers. You may find visitors who click your Google ad get a slower experience. Google adds a query string that looks like ?gclid=vak234kasd1312 which bypasses any caching you may have enabled. Google uses this query string for tracking, however, … Learn more…
Aelia Currency Switcher for Easy Digital Downloads allows digital store owners to set different currencies based on customer geolocation. The MaxMind databases provide GeoIP services so you can detect your visitor’s location. Automatic currency detection based on country adds extra convenience to your store, however it can add extra loading time because PHP must be used to look up … Learn more…
WordPress and WooCommerce both have performance issues with their database structure. Installing Solr on Ubuntu 14.04 can make WordPress and WooCommerce search faster by bypassing the MySQL database and using Solr’s lightning fast lucene structure instead. You will need root ssh access to your VPS or dedicated server to complete this tutorial. Install Solr Ubuntu … Learn more…
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…
Monit can be used to monitor your services on your VPS or dedicated server. You can use Monit to make sure php7-fpm is always running in case it halts or freezes up – this is very rare but it is better to be safe than sorry. Monit will check the php7-fpm process by looking at … Learn more…