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Wordpress Web Optimization: 15 Tips And Plugins To Monitor, Speed Up And Optimize Your Wordpress Blog

September 25th, 2009 in Wordpress | 67 Comments

As a famous open source and feature-rich blogging platfom, Wordpress requires a stable and good hosting environment. There are a few recommended hosting providers listed on the Wordpress official website. These hosting providers meet the minimum system requirements of Wordpress. However, there are a lot of potential providers that meet the requirements. WPWebHost and Exabytes are among the great Wordpress hosting providers.

Bloggers can actually optimize their blogs to consume less server usages and less bandwidth. There are different ways to do the web optimization for Wordpress, for example you can install plugins to monitor, tweak and speed up the loading speed of your Wordpress blog.

Besides installing the plugin, you can tweak your theme and remove the unnecessary features so that your Wordpress system consumes less resource and load faster.

In this article, we are going to look into 15 different plugins and tips to optimize your Wordpress site.

Wordpress Plugins To Monitor, Cache And Speed Up Your Blog

1. WP System Health

WP System Health can display basic server info and Wordpress PHP memory usages. Besides these, the plugin will shows the PHP information that related to Wordpress and Wordpress database table utilization status. By using the WP System Health, bloggers can easily detect the Wordpress system misconfiguration and memory race issues. Wordpress blog’s administrators can install this plugin to easily track the system health status and help them easily identify the problem.
Wordpress System Health Plugin

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10 Really Useful Server Monitoring Tools

August 10th, 2009 in Tools | 35 Comments

To ensure that all your company’s SLAs (that’s Service Level Agreements) are met, you’re going to need a server that’s running smoothly under optimum conditions. Leaving your server’s health to chance is particularly unwise in this socially networked world, where the tiniest molehill of a server hiccup can be turned into a mountain of a problem once it’s been tweeted and blogged about around the globe.

Luckily for you, we’ve found 10 really useful server monitoring tools that will keep your server in tiptop shape, giving you complete peace of mind. These tools monitor a range of different things, from uptime to security and even the physical environment, but all let you identify and resolve problems before they can have a detrimental effect on your business.

1. Pingdom

Pingdom, which is also available as an iPhone application, makes sure that your website is reachable and responding properly at all times, providing you with email and SMS alerts if it’s not. It monitors uptime and overall performance, creating charts and tables that are easy to understand, enabling you to spot trends and accurately pinpoint problems.
pingdom

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