Posts Tagged ‘performance’
The Worst SiteGround or Hostwinds Shared Hosting is Still Better than the Best GoDaddy Shared Hosting
Note: this post has been updated with new information but what I said back in April, 2017 is sadly still true today. I’m going to be real blunt here and say don’t use GoDaddy for shared hosting. Just don’t. I’m going to go further and say if you are using GoDaddy for shared hosting stop. Just stop. I…
Read MoreAre ThemeForest and other paid themes really that bad?
In a private Facebook group about WordPress speed someone asked an excellent question: I have a question about paid templates for WordPress, e.g. Themeforest.Is it true that cool looking templates, with e.g. animated buttons or an interesting mouse cursor, are definitely slower and less optimized than the simpler, more standard-looking ones? It’s true that there…
Read MoreAbout WordPress and image compression
A contributor to a WordPress Facebook had a question about image compression: I have [an image-optimization] plugin installed to compress my images and I noticed while doing a bulk compression that there are multiples of the same image (in different sizes) that it compressed. I did not do this manually. It seems that something created…
Read MoreReviewSignal’s WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks for 2019 are out!
Every year SignalReview runs a series of long-term benchmark tests on a wide array of hosting companies, ranging from bottom-of-the-barrel shared hosting to very high-end enterprise hosting. I particularly appreciate this in-depth review because so many others focus entirely on the bottom-of-the-barrel, cheapest offerings from every provider. That might be fine for hobby, personal, or…
Read MoreShould you stream audio or video from your shared hosting account?
It’s not a good idea to stream audio or video directly from your WordPress website. Especially on shared hosting. Uploading may be easy for you but can be glitchy for your users, and costly for mobile users on limited data plans. On a Facebook group for new WordPress users someone asked “Generic Website questions pertaining…
Read MoreGoDaddy Shared Hosting: Slower than a First-Generation Thumb Drive?
I have a very tough time speaking ill of others but I’ve concluded that GoDaddy is no longer a good choice for WordPress website hosting. Some time since the beginning of they year they began throttling their cPanel/Linux disk I/O down to one megabyte per second! This is very slow! To a point that, as forensic computer…
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