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I’ve been deep in image performance work lately and wanted to share a concise, **non-promotional** field guide for getting solid gains on WordPress sites. Hoping this can be useful, and I’d love to hear what other folks are doing. # 1) Choose sensible formats (don’t overthink it) * **JPEG** for ph…

I'm just getting into WordPress. And while doing some research on WP ENGINE (A WP hosting software I was planning on using) I found a thread about some drama. So the drama in short is WordPress.org is open sourced and owned by Matt. But then WP ENGINE comes in and used WordPress.org to make money o…

I'm just getting into WordPress. And while doing some research on WP ENGINE (A WP hosting software I was planning on using) I found a thread about some drama. So the drama in short is WordPress.org is open sourced and owned by Matt. But then WP ENGINE comes in and used WordPress.org to make money o…

Hi all, I have multiple wordpress websites hosted on namecheap (shared server) and I see a pattern that my wordpress sites gets infected with malware/hacked, the site either gets taken down or it gets content that I have never added to it and it is always in a foreign language . All my plugins ar…

I’ve seen and used multiple platforms for building websites, but nothing came close to what WordPress offers. Ownership, speed, flexibility, affordability – These are the things WordPress is good at. New platforms like Framer are trying to make building websites simple and intuitive. As simple as …

I'm dealing with a hack/malware and am looking for the best option for removal/cleanup, but it's a little complicated. I have 6 WordPress sites on one Bluehost shared hosting account. I learned something was wrong when about 3k new spam pages appeared one one site's Google search console. When I l…

I have a client located in Australia; decent-sized WooCommerce site, currently hosted on WPengine on their Asia/Pacific server. We've noticed a significant decrease in performance in recent months (true for all of my clients on WPengine, to be honest) without any major changes or plugins added to ex…

My website is hosted with DreamHost on their shared platform. The reason I picked them (probably over 10 years ago) was because they were good. I’m not sure what happened to them now. Pretty much every 6 months there’s some major snafu with their platform. Last time they migrated my site to a new …

My website is hosted with DreamHost on their shared platform. The reason I picked them (probably over 10 years ago) was because they were good. I’m not sure what happened to them now. Pretty much every 6 months there’s some major snafu with their platform. Last time they migrated my site to a new …

Update: I did it!!! I switched my host, saved a ton of money (yes, even after the introductory period, which I locked in for 3 years anyway), and was migrated on running in about 3 hours! I will create a new post with my review once I've had it for a few weeks, but so far NameHero for the win!!!! …

Update: I did it!!! I switched my host, saved a ton of money (yes, even after the introductory period, which I locked in for 3 years anyway), and was migrated on running in about 3 hours! I will create a new post with my review once I've had it for a few weeks, but so far NameHero for the win!!!! …

I could just be misunderstanding something. I’ve been looking at the possibility of hosting a couple services, like a photo/video gallery, maybe a [Navidrome](https://www.navidrome.org/) server, *maybe* [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/), on a VPS (or sufficiently flexible shared hosting). I’ve ex…

Hi everyone, I’m currently using Go Daddy Web Hosting Plus with Cloudflare APO. The speed improved a bit, but not enough. I tried all the popular caching plugins, but most made my site slower. FlyingPress looked promising, but my site speed still stays in the red. My WordPress install is about 44 …

I am looking to host in europe because on my cloud platform, hosting in Helsinki or Nuremberg gives you the option for 2 arm cpus and 4 gb of ram for 3.99 a month, as compared to the us options being 2 amd cpus and only 2 gb of ram for 5.99 a month (yes, I am broke and cheap). My primary user base w…

I am looking to host in europe because on my cloud platform, hosting in Helsinki or Nuremberg gives you the option for 2 arm cpus and 4 gb of ram for 3.99 a month, as compared to the us options being 2 amd cpus and only 2 gb of ram for 5.99 a month (yes, I am broke and cheap). My primary user base w…

I feel like there's a million "who's the best host?" posts on here already and I've read most of them, but I'm still undecided here. We currently have a dedicated server with ServerHub. We've been there for 9 years with an unmanaged dedicated server. It's $149/month and our current specs are: …

Asura Hosting is one of the web hosts I've known and used for years. It's not a particularly popular host, but it's one of the cheapest I've come across. They offer shared hosting with two control panel options: cPanel (plans start from $13.79 per year), and DirectAdmin (starting from $12 per year)…

I've been an ipage customer since 2012 and I have finally decided that i need to move (they are going to charge me close to 600USD to renew my two year contract) currently looking at hosting-r or namecheap don't need crazy space but unlimited websites would be nice i don't know I just don…

I am doctoral candidate (humanities, no technical skills...) with extremely tight funds, and 3 years ago, on a whim, I made the mistake of starting my website where I write about my travels using Hostgator hosting. Well, 3 years in, they want me to pay 290 USD a year for their not so good service. T…

After running into problems with my hosting, I switched back to Hostarmada. Only to run into new problems there, namely xml files not being generated correctly. As expected they blamed SEOpress at the start, but before I reached out I had already tried Rank Math and a sitemap xml plugin as well. A…

I've been a client of WP Engine for many years, but the hosting costs have exploded so I'm looking to see if we can save any costs by going elsewhere. **Features I like from WP Engine:** * Automated backups * Easy copy down from production to staging environment * Decent support * Plugin notif…

I've been a client of WP Engine for many years, but the hosting costs have exploded so I'm looking to see if we can save any costs by going elsewhere. **Features I like from WP Engine:** * Automated backups * Easy copy down from production to staging environment * Decent support * Plugin notif…

I cannot remember my password. The forgot password link results in no email sent. Not to spam, not to trash, nor any folder in my inbox. I read this could be due to some email settings not being correct or enabled in my site settings. I cannot change the settings on my dashboard since I cannot log i…

Let me set the stage … I come from a design background. I previously worked at any agency that used Elementor Pro as their page builder with a separate small dev team for specific tasks, which is where I became familiar with it. <<I can feel some of you cringing just reading that statement>> When it…

Hello, I recently started a website - blog (in January this year) my aim at the start was not blogging, rather a website with multiple capabilities and easy to use, therefore my choice of squarespace, however, recently the blog started to grow, now over 25k monthly visitors, and potentially keep gr…

Hi, I have several sites hosted with Siteground but looking to move them to another UK host as I am not at the stage of buying a VPS and managing all the sites myself. I have seen ads for NetNerd who are UK hosts that use LightSpeed for WP (all my sites are WordPress/Woo) and I was just wondering if…

Hi friends. I manage a bunch of sites that are hosted with WP Engine. I also have a multi-site license for WP Rocket that's up for (fairly expensive) renewal in a couple of weeks. In my personal testing on a number of sites, WP Rocket doesn't seem to improve performance by a consistently measur…

Hi friends. I manage a bunch of sites that are hosted with WP Engine. I also have a multi-site license for WP Rocket that's up for (fairly expensive) renewal in a couple of weeks. In my personal testing on a number of sites, WP Rocket doesn't seem to improve performance by a consistently measur…

• monthly budget? $15 or under, would prefer if it was a strictly monthly plannir cheap yearly under $50 • Where are you/your users located? mostly us, not sure • What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case? wordpress site, but i want to b…

I have had a shared hosting plan with them for years that i use to prototype web apps. A project I'm working on requires i connect to a MSSQL database. Let me clarify... CONNECT not HOST. The server is a Linux shared server. On Hostgator's own web page they list that ALL servers (Windows and Linux)…

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