A crashed VPS is one of those situations where the first ten minutes matter more than the next ten hours. Panicking and clicking randomly in a control panel wastes the window where a clean, fast restoration is still possible. Here’s a calm, sequential approach to getting a WordPress site back up after a server crash. […]
Disclosure: This article on WooCommerce Performance Benchmarks includes affiliate links to products we recommend; however, our editorial reviews and benchmark data remain e WooCommerce Performance Benchmarks: How to Test a Store Properly A WooCommerce benchmark must test shopping behavior, not merely a cached home page. Product search, filters, cart updates, account pages, checkout, stock checks, […]
A host that scores well on a desktop speed test can still deliver a sluggish mobile experience — and since Google has used mobile-first indexing for years, that gap is the one that actually affects rankings and real-world visitor experience for most sites. Here’s why mobile and desktop performance diverge even on identical hosting, and […]
Every PHP major-cycle release claims performance wins, and by now the WordPress-hosting community is rightly skeptical of that marketing. PHP 8.3 is worth an exception: it’s a refinement release on top of the 8.0-era JIT rewrite rather than a fresh rearchitecture, and its gains show up specifically in the request patterns a typical WordPress or […]
If you’ve shopped for WordPress hosting in the last few years, you’ve probably seen “LiteSpeed” or “OpenLiteSpeed” listed as a selling point somewhere in the plan details. They sound like the same thing with a naming variant, but the differences between them decide whether your host can actually deliver the speed it advertises — especially […]
Pingdom’s website speed test is one of the fastest ways to get a directional read on a host’s real-world performance — it measures full page load time, time to first byte (TTFB), page size, and request count from a chosen test server location. It’s not a substitute for load testing under real traffic, but run […]
A WordPress migration that copies every file correctly can still break the site if permissions and ownership don’t come across cleanly. This is the single most common “why is my migrated site throwing 500 errors / white screens / can’t upload images” cause, and it’s almost never mentioned in migration plugin documentation because the plugin […]
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Most WordPress migration guides point you to a plugin — install it on both ends, click through a wizard, wait for a zip to build. That works fine for a small brochure site, but once your database or media library grows past a gigabit or two, plugin-based migrations start hitting memory limits, execution timeouts, and […]
Every WordPress migration between domains, or from a staging URL to a live one, needs a search-replace pass on the database — because WordPress stores full URLs directly in post content, in the wp_options table (siteurl, home), and inside serialized PHP arrays used by widgets, theme options, and many plugins. Get this step wrong and […]