Cookies and request parameters are a full page cache’s worst enemies. Merely installing a new marketing plugin can drop your cache hit rate down to 0% if you’re not careful. We’ve seen this happen all to often, and many times site owners are not sure what to do.
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Case Study: Elegant Themes Core Race Conditions
In one of our earlier case studies we looked a random 502 Bad Gateway error that happened because a remote endpoint was not responding. That was pretty easy. Ready for something more interesting? Today, we’ll look at a seemingly mind-boggling case that was disregarded by Elegant Themes support as an unreproducible server issue or plugin…
The Fastest Redis Object Cache for WordPress
Following our very successful Translation Cache for WordPress and Redis Page Cache for WordPress plugins, we’re very excited to announce the most efficient implementation of object caching in existence!
Translation Caching for WordPress
The WordPress i18n (internationalization) API is a pretty inefficient one, sorry. While the translation files appear to be in PO/MO format and can be parsed by gettext implementations, you’ll be surprised to find out that WordPress uses its own gettext implementation written completely in PHP. This is because the gettext PHP module is not built into…
Hardware Specs for WordPress Applications
Your team has been working on that perfect WordPress project for months, it’s been tested and is ready to fly. You get some nice cloud server. Your application survives your first handful of users, gains more traction only to stumble and stall. Your users experience timeout errors, dragging load times and a frustrating experience overall.…
Case Study: 502 Bad Gateway
One of the applications hosted on our platform started returning a 502 Bad Gateway out of nowhere. A 502 Bad Gateway response code usually means that either the PHP-FPM pool has crashed and cannot be connected to, or all the workers are occupied by long-running code, deadlocks, I/O blocks. Within minutes our team was investigating…
WordPress Performance Benchmark – A Year Later
We launched our WordPress performance and security benchmark tool a little over a year ago. So far we’ve had almost 3500 benchmark runs across 2000 unique domains, so we decided to do a quick analysis of average and aggregate benchmark metrics.
Profiling WordPress Performance
Performance is key for high-traffic WordPress sites, and there are two main ingredients for great WordPress performance – caching and profiling. In this short tutorial we’ll focus on profiling, how it complements caching, and why all of it really matters.
Moving A Single Site Out Of A WordPress Multisite Installation
We have written how to move a single WordPress site into a Multisite installation quite a while ago. It’s time to find out how to do the opposite — migrate a site from inside a Multisite installation, into a standalone single-site WordPress install. Let’s get splittin’ ;)
PHPMailer Vulnerability and WordPress
There’s lots of panic around the holidays regarding CVE-2016-10033 – a critical vulnerability in the PHPMailer library, which allows an attacker to inject custom command-line commands and have the webserver execute them (RCE – remote code execution). WordPress uses PHPMailer, yet there hasn’t been an update yet (see trac ticket #37210), the ticket hasn’t been marked as critical…