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How to Speed Up WordPress and Boost Performance on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS

July 6, 2020 by Jeff Wilson

WordPress is one of the most popular open-source content management systems around the globe. It’s one of the easiest blogging platforms to get started with, as evidenced by over 35.2% of all websites being powered by WordPress. If you are already a web master or a blog owner, then speeding up and boosting the performance of your website should be one of your top priorities. In this tutorial, we will show you some useful tips to speed up any WordPress website, as well as explain why it’s important to do so.

How To Install Redis on Ubuntu 18.04

May 23, 2020August 9, 2019 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will cover the steps needed for installing Redis on Ubuntu 18.04, as well as a couple of ways to use Redis.

Redis (short for Remote Dictionary Server), is an open-source in-memory data structure store which can be used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis is a NoSQL Key/Value store, which offers flexibility and improves performance. One of the best features of Redis is the huge range of data types or data structures that it supports, such as lists, sets, stored sets, hashes, bitmaps, etc…

Redis has built-in master-slave replication that allows a Redis server to be an exact copy of a master server’s database. Masters can have multiple slaves, and the replication is done asynchronously, meaning that the master will continue to handle queries while slave servers are synchronizing.

Configure Apache 2 to Control Browser Caching

May 23, 2020October 18, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

In this article, we are going to talk about how to configure Apache2 to control browser caching. If you want to reduce the consumption of your server’s resources, improved responsiveness, bandwidth utilization, availability of content during network interruptions, and give your end users a faster experience, then you need to use the caching that will allow all of this.

A cache is a method for temporarily storing the most requested content so that future requests for that content will be more quickly served by temporary storage (cache) than from the primary location. By using caching, you are efficiently reusing the previously retrieved data. Today we are configuring browser caching control on Apache 2. Let’s get started.

How to Speed Up WordPress with Redis Caching

May 23, 2020November 16, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

How to Speed Up WordPress with Redis Caching in few easy steps. Redis is an in-memory database which can be used as a data store or cache. Redis is an ideal solution to speed up WordPress and any other software that supports Redis caching. In this tutorial we are going to show you how to setup WordPress caching with Redis on a Linux based VPS.

Install Redis and Redis PHP on cPanel

May 23, 2020October 12, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

Redis stands for Remote DIctionary Server and it is a key-value NoSQL database. Almost all languages including PHP have Redis bindings. In this guide, we will show you how to install Redis server and Redis PHP extension on a cPanel based servers so you can use Redis as a cache backend for your WordPress, Laravel, Drupal or any other PHP based application.

How to Install Magento 2 with Varnish, Apache and Pound as SSL Termination

May 23, 2020September 28, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this article, we will show you how to install Magento 2 on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with MariaDB, Varnish as a full page cache, Apache and Pound as SSL termination. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

Install WordPress with Varnish and Nginx on Ubuntu

May 23, 2020July 20, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

We’ll show you how to install WordPress with Varnish and Nginx on Ubuntu. Varnish is a web application accelerator. It redirects the visitors to static pages whenever it is possible. Varnish can be installed and configured to cache the content in front of any HTTP server and it can speed up the delivery up to 300-1000 times.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to increase the loading speed of your WordPress site by setting up Varnish in front of Nginx on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. We assume that you already have LEMP stack (Nginx, MySQL, and PHP) and WordPress installed on your Ubuntu 16.04 server.

Install WordPress with Memcached and Nginx on Ubuntu

May 23, 2020July 18, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to install WordPress with Memcached and Nginx on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. WordPress is one of the best open-source content management systems written in PHP.

How to Install Magento 2 with Apache, Varnish and Memcache

May 23, 2020May 18, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this article, we will show you how to install Magento 2 on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with MariaDB, Varnish as a full page cache, Apache and Memcache for session storage. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

How to Speed Up Drupal Using Varnish on Ubuntu 16.04

May 23, 2020May 9, 2017 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we are going to provide you with step by step instructions on how to speed Up Drupal using Varnish on Ubuntu 16.04. Drupal is one of the leading open source content management platforms. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of Drupal is 8.3.2 and it requires: