Category: Hosting and infrastructure

Which Type of Hosting Should You Choose for Your WordPress Site?

There are four main families of hosting for a WordPress site: shared hosting, dedicated servers, cloud hosting and autoscale hosting. The right choice depends on three factors: your traffic, your budget and how important the site is to your revenue. For most SMBs, quality shared hosting or managed cloud hosting does the job very well; dedicated servers and autoscale answer more specialized needs. Here's how to make sense of it all, without the jargon. Shared hosting: the …

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WordPress caching, explained simply

Caching means keeping a ready-made copy of your web pages so they can be served to visitors instantly, instead of being rebuilt on every visit. It is the single most effective lever for speeding up a WordPress site: configured properly, it can take a page from several seconds down to a few hundred milliseconds. Here is how it works, explained without the jargon. Why WordPress needs a cache Every time someone visits a page, …

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CDNs and Cloudflare: worth it for an SMB website?

A CDN (content delivery network) places copies of your site on servers spread around the world, so every visitor loads it from the point closest to them. The result: a faster, more stable site that is better protected against attacks. For a Quebec SMB, Cloudflare is the most accessible entry point — its free plan already covers the essentials, and it's the one we deploy on the sites we host. What is a CDN, concretely? …

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