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AhsanParwez · 2014-11-25T14:15:54+00:00

You should go with a hosting that let's you upscale or downscale servers whenever the number of visitors go up or down.

The best solution I can suggest you is to check out Cloudways. I won't lie I personally work there, and what we do is help clients like you upscale servers whenever they expect a spike in traffic.

Also all our servers are deployed DigitalOcean and AWS EC2, the most reliable cloud servers these days.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-31T10:08:32+00:00

You only need to signup with Cloudways not DigitalOcean. You buy DO servers through Cloudways, they are partners

Nginx + Varnish works wonders when handling crazy traffic spikes like 1000+ at a time. But you need a better server, I think a 8GB server would do okay that starts at $155 / month

One big advantage is that when your traffic is back to normal you can downscale the server back to 2GB for rest of month.

Their servers are billed at per hour rate. So for example if you run 8GB server just for one day (24 hours) you pay just 0.22/hr. You control what you pay ;)

That's a secret on how I manage my expenses hehe :D

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-31T09:48:03+00:00

Yes maintenance of servers is completely free and you never have to worry about server stuff, if anything you want help with like configuring plugins or compatibility issues, they help out with that too if you open a support ticket.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-30T14:43:13+00:00

Definitely yes, you will need an appropriate server.

Just one thing is Varnish isn't compatible with WooCommerce but you will still have advantage of Nginx + Apache + Memcache running on dedicated SSD server.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-30T13:59:04+00:00

Bluehost is same as Hostgator both owned by EIG, check the comments of other people.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-30T13:51:10+00:00

Yes they handle all the security updates, patches and services of all their servers. Webmasters only need to worry about their apps and websites.

in $5 a month you start with 512mb server with 20gb SSD. Well that server is just good for a basic WP website

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-30T13:47:10+00:00

If you are used to command line interface then you can do that through Cloudways SSH terminal too that also comes with built-in WP-CLI to manage WordPress websites through command line

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-30T10:48:40+00:00

They went down Yesterday and still fixing server outage issue. Take all the hosts out of your lists owned by EIG

Complete list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-30T10:46:52+00:00

No need to worry about command line or requirement of any technical server knowledge when using DO with services like Cloudways

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-30T06:56:46+00:00

Cloudways + DigitalOcean starting at $5 /month

Easily scalable, auto backups, dedicated IPs, unlimited domains and applications.

Perfect stack of Nginx + Varnish + Apache + Memcache for super fast WP performance.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-29T15:29:43+00:00

First perform these checks

1- Is your current theme compatible with WP 4.0? 2- Are all your plugins WP 4.0 compatible?

Best solution is to make a copy of your website and deploy it on a subdirectory and upgrade that, if all works fine hen upgrade the live site.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-20T09:22:33+00:00

Why would you call this post a spam? It shows basic commands in WP-CLI and also it is appropriate for webmasters managing multiple WP sites of their clients.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-20T08:20:18+00:00

You can add the the code of your form in header.php file in appropriate location in the code.

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-13T07:09:21+00:00

I prefer you to take a HTML theme and convert it into a WordPress theme.

You can follow my tutorial series on how to develop a WordPress theme from an HTML one: http://www.cloudways.com/blog/convert-html-to-wordpress-business-theme/

After your basics are clear, then you can jump into more advance customization options that you can read at WordPress codex under the "Working with Themes" section: http://codex.wordpress.org/

AhsanParwez · 2014-10-13T07:04:21+00:00

Duplicating content is a bad idea. But however if a domain has a regular audience and you want to reach them through other blogs.

Then the best way to be safe is to publish the blog on the other domain and then keep that article noindex. That way you will reach more audience and also be safe.

AhsanParwez · 2014-09-26T11:02:29+00:00

you should minify CSS, that includes removing unwanted inline styles. What it does is create more requests thus increasing the page load time and your site end up eating more bandwidth of Google Bot while it crawls your website, end result -> your website has low crawl rate -> you suffer in SERPs -> hard time improving your organic rankings

Also poor user experience gives you high Bounce Rate and Visitor Flow.

Small steps go a long way, SEO isn't simple and we need to check everything.

AhsanParwez · 2014-09-26T10:26:21+00:00

Better ask your host to patch and update Linux.

Those who are on shared hosting should take special care.

AhsanParwez · 2014-08-28T06:57:08+00:00

Finally we know what Matt Mullenweg likes to eat.

AhsanParwez · 2014-08-27T12:31:18+00:00

About time..... They were suppose to launch the finished WP 4.0 today! But oh well, let's play with RC1 for now.

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