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Docker is an incredibly popular platform & framework that lets users build, run, and manage different “containers” on cloud servers. For app developers, Docker is an excellent option as it significantly accelerates their workflow, while offering them a comprehensive array of tools and environments to seamlessly execute each project. In this article, we aren’t going …

Thanks to all the themes and plugins of WordPress, it is now very easy to build and manage a WordPress site. Once you have created your site, the Admin Panel allows you to manage it easily.  However, what if you prefer a command-line interface? It requires time and effort to manage WordPress websites through the …

Are WordPress.com and WordPress.org the same? It’s a question that on the surface seems so obvious, that many people don’t even think to ask it, let alone consider the answer. The truth is that those three little letters after the period make a huge difference, and could impact the success of your website in the …

Trying to figure out what managed WordPress hosting is and whether you need it? WordPress currently powers over 455 million websites, with 500 new WordPress websites every day. Well over a third of the top 1 million websites is WordPress based, so no one is ever going to deny its popularity or success, but that …

Linux logs offer developers and system administrators a detailed account of all events, requests, and activity on the server. Log files can be used to monitor critical events in the kernel, the server, and for any services or applications actively running.  Server administrators can review comprehensive diagnostic information about performance, ranging from kernel events to …

Autoptimize is a popular WordPress plugin to optimize your WordPress sites with more than 1 million active installs and around 1,200 five stars reviews at WordPress.org. In this post, we’ll discuss how to use Autoptimize to improve the performance of your WordPress websites. Who needs Autoptimize? If you use lightweight WordPress theme/plugins in your WordPress …

If you work in DevOps, you may have heard, or be familiar with, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Often, people use these terms interchangeably, but this is incorrect.  Consider that you wish to implement a change to your web application – for simple changes, these are often made directly. But when you’re considering improving your …

Docker is a popular containerization platform that has been used by developers and teams to build and scale containerized applications. However, many non-technical professionals are unaware of its capabilities, or why Docker is such a popular choice.  In the following article, we are going to do a deep dive into Docker, and explain why it …

With over a million websites powered by Laravel, Google pushing the importance of website speed, and users less & less accepting of anything other than an incredibly smooth user experience – some are giving PHP & frameworks like Laravel the reputation of being less performant than other frameworks. While there very well may be truth to …