WP Engine Support Garage

This is one of those guides where there are too many variables to list. Here are some of the more common ones. First, use a third-party analysis tool to confirm that your site is actually slow. There have been cases where being logged into your WordPress had masked the issue, or the customers home Internet [...]

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that makes your static content (images, CSS, Javascript) much faster. It’s a collection of servers located all around the world. When a browser loads static content, the request is automatically routed to a server physically closest to the browser. This makes the content load much faster. Because [...]

Amazon makes great tools! Not cheap, but amazing to be sure. Unfortunately, just having access to servers by the hour doesn’t automatically create a highly-available, scalable, fast WordPress cluster. Here’s why. First, ELB won’t make a single page fast, it just warms up more Apache servers when you’re under heavy traffic load. Also it doesn’t warm [...]

Yes it will. Your rankings might actually go up! Page load time and bounce rates are significant factors in search engine ranking algorithms. WP Engine offers very fast and reliable WordPress hosting which will lower your page load times, decrease your bounce rate and help improve your search rankings. To make sure you’re nice and [...]

The advantage to self-hosting is complete control. The thing is, we give you complete control over customization anyway. The problem with self-hosting is that you have to do all the IT grunt work yourself. This includes: backups, security, website performance, website scaling (when you get hit with major press), and upgrading WordPress. Why not let [...]