500 / 403 / 404 Errors

server error 500

500 / 403 / 404 Errors If you’ve been on the web long enough, you’ve run into them — those annoying “something went wrong” pages that pop up instead of the content you actually wanted. Three of the most common offenders are 500 Internal Server Error, 403 Forbidden, and 404 Not Found. They look simple … Read more

Canadian VPS Server Faster than Amazon.ca!

Server issues

Latest job: Optimization of a Canadian VPS Linux server Server Support – Linux Server Support – VPS or Dedicated: Particularly Suitable for E-shops and E-commerce Servers     I have a list of 12 data points to optimize a VPS. These deal with optimizing memory, CPU, TCP connections, PHP settings, Linux filesystem, hard disk parameters … Read more

Website speed myths

website speed myths

People tend to give more credit to website speed than merited and attribute to it properties and powers it doesn’t have. Examples: Indexation People think that part of (or all of) their indexation issues are caused by the low website speed when the truth is, that their SEO team is underperforming dramatically.     Higher … Read more

Migration issues

website migration

My latest WP Migration projects were: 3 WP sites (built with Elementor, and WP Bakery, 2 of which nested into the 3rd WP -main domain-).Additionally, I’ve transferred a British Woocommerce website amounting to 32GB of data.There’s no limit to the website size that I can transfer. Issues you might encounter during a website migration:1. SSL … Read more

How to clear the Cache on Cloudways

Cloudways cache

WordPress Object Caching is the process of saving query results of the database, so when a new request is generated, it is served from the cache memory to accelerate the completion of the request. WordPress is a Content Management System; hence, it relies extensively on a database. It means that your application database must be … Read more

How to Block Bot Traffic

Have you ever gone through your server logs and discovered those aggressive spiders that your servers at crazy request rates?Here is a quick list of known bots to be inserted into robots.txt User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: Ezooms Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: Majestic-12 Disallow: / User-agent: Majestic-SEO Disallow: … Read more