It’s the first update of 2021 and I hope it finds you well! With any sort of luck 2021 will be a better year than 2020 was. Let’s dive in to the update. Features, updates, bugs Unified Redis – Kernl uses Redis in a handful of different places for caching and queuing. It used to… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – January 2021
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Which Cloudways Hosting Provider is Best for WooCommerce?
In the world of WooCommerce hosting there are a lot of options. One of the often recommended hosting services is Cloudways, which makes it very easy to spin up a reasonably performant WooCommerce site. You do still have to make a few choices though, including whether to use DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, or GCP. So… Continue reading Which Cloudways Hosting Provider is Best for WooCommerce?
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
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 – 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
What’s New With Kernl – April 2020
Kernl had another great month, with some bug fixes, blog entries, and a few new features. Most importantly we’re announcing a limited beta of our new global update CDN! With our new global CDN powered by Vercel, every Kernl update request is cached at edge nodes around the world. This means <= 50ms response times… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – April 2020
What’s New With Kernl – March 2020
With all the uncertainty in the world right now due to COVID-19, we are intentionally keeping things boring at Kernl. Bug fixes, new docs, and increased capacity are all we did this month. Stay safe out there everyone! Features, Bugs, Updates NEW DOCUMENTATION! – After 5 years we finally moved to a real documentation generator!… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – March 2020
What’s New With Kernl – February 2020
I hope everyone had a great February! We didn’t too much feature development this month, but there was a lot of bug fixing and performance improvements, so let’s dive in! Feature, Bugs, and Performance Node.js – Kernl is now on Node.js 12.16.1. This release was all about security fixes. Load Testing Machine Provisioning – We… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – February 2020
What’s New With Kernl – January 2020
January was a pretty great month for Kernl. We got a lot of bug fixes, some performance improvements, and even a new beta feature out the door. Let’s dive in! WordPress Site Health Beta This month we released a beta of our WordPress Site Health service. The goal of this service is to help you… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – January 2020
What’s New With Kernl – December 2019
Welcome to the end of 2019! I hope that everyone has had as good a year as Kernl. Let’s dive in to the final update of 2019 to see what’s new. Features, Bug Fixes, & Misc. Improved License Management Search – License management now includes improved search functionality. The previous search functionality was flaky (at… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – December 2019