Tips & Tricks

According to StatCounter, Google dominates the search engine market with an overwhelming 93.37% share, leaving its closest competitor, Bing, with just 2.81%. This market dominance highlights the critical importance for developers to optimize their sites for Google’s ranking algorithms. To rank websites Google employs a variety of methods, including the most recent and crucial method …

Did you know that a one-second delay in page load time can reduce conversions by 7%? Or, that Google penalizes slow sites in its search rankings? These are just some of the consequences of having a poorly performing WordPress site. And one of the main factors that affects your site’s performance is the amount of …

Did you know that a large number of PHP applications are encoded with ionCube? If you want to use any of these applications on your web server, you need to install ionCube Loader – a PHP extension that allows you to run ionCube-encoded PHP files. But how do you install ionCube Loader on your web …

Tired of slow page load times and constant frustration with your WordPress site’s performance? The solution might just be something called ‘Object Caching’. In this article we’ll dive into exactly what Object Caching is and how it works. Most importantly, we’ll guide you through the steps you’ll need to go through to start using Object …

Have you ever wondered how to create a duplicate WordPress website with all of the identical settings and configurations? This is where website cloning comes in.  Website cloning is the process of creating an exact replica of an existing website. It’s a popular practice among website developers and designers to clone websites for both testing …

NextCloud is a self-hosted productivity platform that offers industry-leading, on-premise content collaboration functionality. It’s an alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive, but with the advantage that it can be installed on your own server, ensuring that your data remains under your control. You can use NextCloud to share and collaborate on documents, send and receive …

Netdata is a powerful tool that can help you monitor your servers with ease and efficiency. It’s a distributed, real-time, performance, and health monitoring platform that can collect and display thousands of metrics from your servers, hardware, containers, and applications, including RAM and CPU usage. Netdata has many features and benefits that make it a …

If you are using Cloudflare proxy to hide your server’s IP address from the internet, then you might encounter a glitch that causes visitors to get stuck in a redirection loop. Eventually, the request times out with an error message saying, “Too many redirects”. In this article, we will investigate why websites might get stuck …

In most cases, we normally recommend using transactional email services such as Mailgun, Amazon SES, or Mandrill rather than sending emails from your own service. But if you are feeling enthusiastic you can even set up your own server too.  That’s what we’re going to cover in this article. Take your tech skills to the …