WordPress plugins and themes can store a lot of temporary data known as transients. By default these transients are stored in the wp_options table and can accumulate rather quickly. Recently on codeable I cleaned a site with 58000 expired transients that were causing the database to crash daily. Due to an idiosyncrasy in WordPress core, … Learn more…
PHP-FPM has as a default configuration that uses more memory than necessary. It has spare php-fpm processes ready to go, taking up memory in case there is PHP code to process. While not a problem if you have tons of RAM, it can be an issue for low RAM VPS and if you are using … Learn more…
Using Google Analytics to gain traffic insights for your WordPress or WooCommerce site can track visitors and conversion rates. If you use tracking for email blasts when you publish new posts or product deals, you may find visitors get a slower experience. Google Analytics adds a query string that looks something like ?utm_source=mailchimp which bypasses any caching you … Learn more…
On Windows you have a GUI where you can identify large folders taking up space. On most Linux servers, which are headless (i.e. no GUI desktop), these helpful graphical interfaces are not present because they take up precious resources which should be used for your web server software. You can still have large folders with … Learn more…
Using Google Analytics to gain traffic insights for your WordPress or WooCommerce site can track visitors and conversion rates. If you use tracking for email blasts when you publish new posts or product deals, you may find visitors get a slower experience. Google Analytics adds a query string that looks something like ?utm_source=mailchimp which bypasses any caching you … Learn more…