I hired a sysadmin to set up a VPS server for me and, unfortunately, it looks like things were not set up correctly. When trying to install and update plugins, I run into permissions errors all the time. WP Super Cache is the main issue as it causing my readers to run into 502 errors. … Read more
We are going to launch a community site with 100K posts, 100K comments, 10K terms, 5 users ( all admin/editorial), and approx 500K recs in the wp_postmeta. Site may grow with a larger author base and we hope it will grow to become a much bigger site… At this time, I would like to know … Read more
In your experience, when is the time one needs to start thinking about scaling up? What is the expected performance of a common WordPress installation on a standard Apache web server, without any [performance tweaks or plugins](Steps to Optimize WordPress in Regard to Server Load?)? In terms of page loads (let’s assume no caching): Is … Read more
I am running wordpress on two identical servers. Both sit behind a load balancer. Both use the same database. How am I supposed to do things like update a plugin or wordpress? My current thought is to: Disconnect one of the servers from the LB – So I know which one I’m working with. Perform … Read more
I understand that having less data being downloaded improves the experience to the end user, but my question is related to the actual server performance, would the response be faster? I am fetching posts like this: https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?_embed&per_page=20&categories=9 It returns a fairly large object for each post, but I only need the id, title, excerpt, featured … Read more
With our website, we want to make it so that if the site is about to go down, it instead displays a custom 503 (based on a server load limit set by us). Is there something that can handle this that is already built in, or a plugin that might help? I know manual switching … Read more
I’ve got a Layer 7 Load Balancer setup using HAProxy for WordPress Multisite. I’m looking to have anything related to the WordPress backend to be served from a specific group of servers (A/K/A anything in /wp-admin/) while serving the frontend of the WordPress websites from another group of servers. Do I need to adjust something … Read more
I have several hosted wordpress blogs, and I’ve been trying to visit them and they are really slow. I looked at my server logs and I found this stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 – – [17/Aug/2013:17:14:28 -0700] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1” 200 595 “-” “GoogleBot/1.0” stanfordflipside.com:80 188.138.33.149 – – [17/Aug/2013:17:14:28 -0700] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1” 200 595 “-” “GoogleBot/1.0” stanfordflipside.com:80 … Read more
I’d like to cause a plugin to restrict its loading of CSS stylesheets and JavaScript JS files to only those pages for which they are needed. An example for my question is the plugin Contact Form 7 which I’ve used to create a form in one page on my site (the “contact me” page). However … Read more
The WordPress Heartbeat API uses admin-ajax.php to run AJAX calls. If User X leaves their browser open, many calls will be made to the server, with each call happening when there is a ‘beat’. Now if User Y leaves their browser open, many more calls will be made to the server, with each of these … Read more
