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
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The Crucible – Extreme WordPress Performance Challenge
Load testing is fun. Breaking things is fun. Breaking WordPress with load testing is even more fun. But in the era of highly scaleable WordPress hosting solutions, can we even break WordPress anymore? Oh yes, yes we can. The Crucible Challenge can. Crucible Challenge The Crucible WordPress Performance challenge is a deceptively simple test inspired… Continue reading The Crucible – Extreme WordPress Performance Challenge
What’s New With Kernl – April 2019
Lots of great stuff came down the pipeline this month at Kernl, so lets dive in! Features / Bugs / Improvements Share Load Tests – You can now share your load tests publicly! Just click the “share” button that shows up after your load test is completed. Analytics Widget – If you scroll down past… Continue reading What’s New With Kernl – April 2019
Introducing Shareable WordPress Load Test Results
For quite awhile now Kernl has had the ability to throw some serious load at your WordPress site, but never a great way to share the results. Today that changes with the introduction of load test result sharing! Why would I share my load test results? The main use case for sharing your load test… Continue reading Introducing Shareable WordPress Load Test Results
W3 Total Cache Performance Review
Test your own site’s performance with Kernl WordPress Load Testing! In the world of WordPress performance, you can’t go far without talking about caching plugins. I’ve personally used several different caching plugins throughout my time as a WordPress developer but have never really took the time to see how the plugins perform under pressure. Until… Continue reading W3 Total Cache Performance Review
Is More RAM or More CPU Better for WordPress Hosting?
Want to performance test your own WordPress site? Try Kernl WordPress Load Testing! Throughout the lifetime of Kernl I’ve always kept an eye out for ways to reduce costs, which means I’ve constantly got an eye on Digital Ocean‘s droplet pricing to see if there are any cost efficiencies to be had. Back in January… Continue reading Is More RAM or More CPU Better for WordPress Hosting?
Adventures in Scalable WordPress Hosting: Part 2
Interested in testing your WordPress scalability? Check out the Kernl WordPress Load Testing beta program! In part 1 of this series I explored scaling WordPress using WP Super Cache and by throwing more expensive hardware at the problem. In part 2 of this series we’ll go on adventure in horizontal scalability using load balancers, NFS,… Continue reading Adventures in Scalable WordPress Hosting: Part 2
Adventures in Scalable WordPress Hosting: Part 1
If you follow the Kernl Blog you’ll know that recently I’ve been writing about load testing different managed WordPress cloud providers. Half of the reason for doing this is to shake out any bugs in Kernl’s WordPress load testing platform and the other half is to learn whats out there in terms of managed WordPress… Continue reading Adventures in Scalable WordPress Hosting: Part 1
Load Testing the ChemiCloud Managed WordPress Hosting Service
At the beginning of December Kernl launched a closed beta for our WordPress Load Testing service. As part of the bug shakedown we’ve been spending some time load testing different managed WordPress hosting services. Some of previous tests include WordPress.com, CloudWays, and GoDaddy. For this test, we turned our sights on ChemiCloud. How do we judge… Continue reading Load Testing the ChemiCloud Managed WordPress Hosting Service
Load Testing the WordPress.com Managed WordPress Service
This December Kernl launched it’s new WordPress Load Testing service. As part of the bug shakedown we decided to load test as many managed WordPress providers as we could. In this test, we turn our sights to WordPress.com. How do we judge the platform? For this series of blog posts we judge the platform via… Continue reading Load Testing the WordPress.com Managed WordPress Service