Category: Kernl

What’s New With Kernl – October 2020

Happy (almost) November! It was a very bug-fix and infrastructure heavy month for Kernl, so lets dive in! Features, Bugs, & Infrastructure Redis robust connection handling – We’ve done some resiliency work so that Redis failing will not cause any issues in Kernl. If Redis goes away, all traffic is handled un-cached. Once it comes… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – October 2020

EasyWP Performance Review

EasyWP Authenticated – 500 Users Requests per Second

Back in 2019 I became aware of a new player in the managed WordPress hosting space: EasyWP by Namecheap. As a Namecheap customer (domain registrar) I was curious about their entry into this market and gave them a try. When I initially did performance tests, the platform was still very new and it showed. But… Continue reading EasyWP Performance Review

What’s New With Kernl – September 2020

Hello! I hope that everyone had a great September. This wasn’t a big feature month for Kernl, but we did fix some bugs and make some minor enhancements. Let’s dive in! Features, Bugs, and Other Improvements Load Testing – The 100th percentile for “final” response time distributions wasn’t being recorded. The reporting position changed in… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – September 2020

How to Enable Two-Factor Auth (2FA) for WordPress

When running a WordPress site, security should be first and foremost at the front of your mind. One of the best ways to prevent malicious users from accessing your /wp-admin area is enabling two-factor auth (2FA) for WordPress. The easiest way to enable two factor auth for WordPress is the use the Wordfence Security plugin… Continue reading How to Enable Two-Factor Auth (2FA) for WordPress

What’s New With Kernl – August 2020

Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since the last update message, but now that summer is nearly over in the northern hemisphere Kernl will again be receiving regular updates and enhancements. This doesn’t mean that we weren’t busy though! Let’s dig in. New Features License Management Activated Domains – When viewing your license list, you can… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – August 2020

Hummingbird Cache for WordPress Performance Review

The Hummingbird Cache plugin is one of many different caching plugins available in the WordPress ecosystem. Enabling it will increase your site’s performance significantly, but by how much? In this review we’re going to use Kernl’s WordPress Load Testing tool to push our Hummingbird Cache WordPress installation to it’s limits. Test System Setup As with… Continue reading Hummingbird Cache for WordPress Performance Review

UpCloud WordPress Hosting Review

If you spend time in the WordPress hosting space and few names constantly come up, and one of them is UpCloud. UpCloud is a European cloud provider with data centers all over the world that claims to have the world’s “fastest cloud servers”. In this review we’re going to take a look at how WordPress… Continue reading UpCloud WordPress Hosting Review

What’s New With Kernl – May 2020

Hello everyone and welcome to the May 2020 edition of “What’s New with Kernl”! This month was relatively slow for us with little work on new features and more focus on bugs and refactoring. Let’s dive in. We now have video tutorials for enabling Git deployments on your WordPress plugins and themes. You can see… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – May 2020