I'd say for the last 5+ years, I've had all my domains registered through NameCheap. It was always far cheaper than renewing domains through a hosting company. Hosting companies are known for marking up prices on domain name renewals. This is why places like Namecheap were a great alternative, because…
My town recently had fiber internet installed, and the sign-up flyers have been bombarding the mailbox. The offer? 1 gig symmetrical, price locked for 2 years - no contract, free install and will be almost half the monthly price I pay now. I went for it since I'm on cable…
I wanted to take a moment and discuss 3 overlooked things you should avoid when considering WordPress optimization. These are more advanced considerations when trying to take optimization to the next level. Over the years, obsession drove me to finding the best possible setups, settings, and configurations for a WordPress…
When switching a WordPress install from Apache to LiteSpeed, you're likely going to encounter permission errors and warnings within WordPress. This is due to LiteSpeed using the server user nobody. Through Webuzo, I switched from Apache to LiteSpeed and immediately started seeing the errors in WordPress. It was still fully…
At some point in time you may have pushed your website's images to the cloud, whether it be to S3 (AWS) or a host like DigitalOcean's Spaces. These images are now sitting in storage needing to be compressed. And as we know, any compression is helpful when it comes to…
When trying to use LiteSpeed Cache and wpDiscuz together, there are some problems when using minify CSS and JS. The comment box doesn't work properly and you will see 404 errors in the console. We need to exclude wpDiscuz files from caching. Just add these to the CSS/JS excludes. JS…