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Accelerate Your Content Delivery With KeyCDN

Tutorial • Intermediate

Speed up your website or WordPress site with KeyCDN. Fast, simple, affordable and reliable, it's an ideal CDN for newbies or experienced system...

Jeff Reifman • 18 Feb 2015
Cloud & Hosting

Hosting a WordPress Website on Google App Engine

Tutorial • Intermediate

A simple guide on how to set up Google App Engine for your WordPress installation. By using the powerful infrastructure of Google, you can now speed up your...

Bilal Shaheen • 29 Jan 2015
Hosting

Introduction to New Relic Synthetics

Tutorial • Beginner

New Relic's newest service provides automated testing from locations around the world, alerting you to errors and slowdowns immediately when and where they...

Jeff Reifman • 15 Jan 2015
Web Servers

How to Back Up a WordPress Site with CodeGuard

Tutorial • Intermediate

Use CodeGuard's website time machine to configure secure backup services for your WordPress site, files and databases.

Jeff Reifman • 14 Jan 2015
Cloud & Hosting

Data Visualization App Using GAE Python, D3.js and Google BigQuery

Tutorial • Intermediate

Imagine that you have a large set of data with millions of rows and you're faced with the task of extracting information from the data. How do you make sense...

Jay • 20 Dec 2014
Hosting

Drill Down Into Stackify's Smart Error and Log Management

Tutorial • Intermediate

Work smarter in production; increase the usefulness of your logging with Stackify's real time error tracking and smart logs.

Jeff Reifman • 16 Dec 2014
Cloud & Hosting

Export Your Gravity Forms Submissions to a Google Spreadsheet with Zapier

Tutorial • Beginner

Anyone who has read my tutorials knows that I'm a big fan of Gravity Forms. I don't often promote paid plugins because there are just so many good free...

Laura Hartwig • 5 Dec 2014
Hosting

Introduction to New Relic Insights

Tutorial • Beginner

For the first time ever, you can now ask questions about your software, customers, and business and get answers in milliseconds.

Jeff Reifman • 13 Nov 2014
Cloud & Hosting

Multi-Instance Node.js App in PaaS Using Redis Pub/Sub

Tutorial • Intermediate

If you use PaaS to host your application, you often end up with lots of small "containers", and with each instance of your app running in another virtual...

Maciej Sopyło • 30 Oct 2014
Scaling

Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Minification Settings

Tutorial • Beginner

In the previous article about configuration of W3 Total Cache plugin, we completed configurations of Page Caching. The next part of the advance settings is...

Ahmad Awais • 23 Oct 2014
Terminal and CLI

Securing Your Server Login

Tutorial • Intermediate

Here's our guide to a handful of common approaches to securing access to your Linux-based web and application server. You'll learn about adding two-factor...

Jeff Reifman • 21 Oct 2014
Scaling

Configuring W3 Total Cache: Advanced Page Cache II

Tutorial • Beginner

In the previous post, we started configuring advance settings of Page Cache in W3 Total Cache plugin and configured the General and Cache Preload settings....

Ahmad Awais • 14 Oct 2014