There’s nothing quite as frustrating as visiting a WordPress website that takes forever to load for no apparent reason. Uncompressed images, bloated themes and plugins, and a lack of thoughtful content construction are just some of the factors that contribute to this. Well, I’ve had enough! That’s why I’m excited to share that I’ve embarked …
NextDNS and Pi-hole are two well-known DNS blockers that provide similar features, but differ in their implementation. NextDNS operates as a cloud-based service, while Pi-hole functions as a self-hosted solution. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach depend on the user’s needs. In this article, we will compare cloud-based versus self-hosted DNS blockers based on …
In a follow-up to my previous post, I shall go through new benchmarks, configuration, and optimizations for my VPS server. This is all in an attempt to squeeze the maximum performance out of my Hetzner CPX11 (2 cores, 2GB) VPS server that I use for web hosting. $5/month hosted in Ashburn, VA Server Configuration Keeping …
Attempting to push my Hetzner CPX11 (2 cores, 2GB) VPS server to its limits. $5/month hosted in Ashburn, VA Configuration Running through the free Cloudflare plan. Individually optimized and tweaked Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, and Redis. Using Redis Object Cache and Autoptimize for further performance and optimization. Benchmarking WPPerformanceTester WordPress Hosting Benchmark Tool KeyCDN Run on …