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Another good host is Namecheap (web-hosting.com). We use them for smaller clients. We now have a good, well tuned stack of NC Hosting, W3TC and MaxCDN which is very performant for little cost and most of all repeatable and predictable. CloudFlare is also used when needed.
For our VIP Customers, we put them on our RamNode VPS which is amazing. Our site renders in under 500ms to Australia, which considering the round trip to Seattle, is quite impressive. Scoring on Pingdom, Webpage Speed Test and GT as well as Page Speed Insights is fantastic.
The VPS does take a little more tuning and attention, although to be honest since we've settled on an NGINX platform it is much easier than Apache; of all things.
Anyway, probably too much techno talk for this thread, but if you want a good solid partner with stellar support (chat support always solves our issues in under 5 minutes with no hassle) Namecheap / Web-Hosting with W3TC and MaxCDN is fantastic.
May 18, 2014 at 3:22 pm in reply to: Site speed hurting because of huge images in metro theme homepage #105788coralseaitMemberYour images aren't really contributing that much to your load from what I can see.
You have 3x 302 redirects which are harming you and a lot of external resources. Disqus and your ads seem to be hurting. You could specify better caching although the ads and disqus won't cache.
You also have quite a few fonts, you could reduce to a couple to help improve.
coralseaitMemberThank you very much Lisa for the update and sharing the experience with MaxGalleria. Sounds like the devs are on the ball.
March 26, 2014 at 5:33 pm in reply to: Tbhelaw.com – What Slider Does This Website Ues on Minimum Theme? #96859coralseaitMemberNo worries, glad could help!
Note, you can do it on your own with minor code / no cost, but if you want something you can deploy quick without fuss that plugin is nice.
Here's a method for doing it via code http://wpsites.net/web-design/resize-background-images/ thanks to Brad Dalton, whose active on this forum.
March 26, 2014 at 6:23 am in reply to: Tbhelaw.com – What Slider Does This Website Ues on Minimum Theme? #96700coralseaitMemberIt is using backstretch with image rotation. You can get a plugin such as the one here http://reaktivstudios.com/store/wp-backstretch/ to do it or write your own code.
coralseaitMembercoralseaitMemberHello,
On your first question, it appears that something is happening outside of the loop or different on that listing. What if you delete it and re-add, is it the same? What are you doing, if anything to the query args? Edit, thinking on it may be related to second question below because of the action hook firing with query populated. Not sure.
On your second question, because you've hooked into genesis_after_loop the action fires after the genesis loop anywhere it is used (which is every template page in most themes) so that def isn't the desired behaviour for your goals. Have a look here for a better hook http://my.studiopress.com/docs/hook-reference/
You may want to look into a custom genesis loop instead of adding an action after the loop standard genesis loop if you can't find something that better suits your needs. You may also want to look into WP Query if you need to completely customize your query args and write your own front end.
coralseaitMemberI'm not sure what's going on, but your images don't appear to be the same size, I can see some pop on the slider.
Try sizing your images to your slider dimensions. Also you have a lot of text in the side, Executive's not really meant for tons of text. You may need to allocate more of a percentage for your text after you re-size the images.
coralseaitMembercoralseaitMemberTake off the padding in the CSS (style.css) for .agency-pro-home .content .widget
Although you may want to refine the rest a bit, looks like the site has no title.
coralseaitMembercoralseaitMemberIt is going to be difficult because fully managed will be expensive. If you still want to go self managed, but a better performing partner with less cost RamNode is fantastic. They often run coupons for 40 or 30% off for life.
If you couple that with a good CDN partner you may well meet your performance needs. MaxCDN can be very reasonable.
The typical cloud servers don't perform as well as linode VPS or RamNode, but they will scale well so something like AWS or whatnot can help you get through your traffic surge but to scale permanently with similar performance to VPS is quite expensive.
The nice thing with some Cloud providers is use as you go, so you'll only incur the cost during your traffic surge. CloudFlare will help as well, although there are debates about the impact to TTFB (time to first byte) and SSL will be an issue (with both a CDN and CloudFlare) if you do SSL it can be very costly.
One nice benefit to CloudFlare is to offload your minification to their cloud, so that is good. Incapsula is also an alternative.
coralseaitMembercoralseaitMemberI seem to remember Brad Dalton at http://wpsites.net/ did a tutorial on a Genesis Theme layout that was very similar. He's active in these forums so maybe ask him!!
coralseaitMembercoralseaitMembercoralseaitMemberAnother thing I suggest is to make sure you are backing up your instance properly to an 'offsite' location (i.e. not Go Daddy). By instance, I mean the OS, whatever apps and packages you have installed, the DB engine and DBs and WordPress installs.
Don't rely on Go Daddy to make backups for you, even if part of the service. It is critical you make sure your scripts are backing up things properly, for example if you are using MySQL that you dump properly etc.
coralseaitMemberDigital Ocean and Howtoforge have some good guides on security and the like. RT Camp has some good guides on tuning sites with WordPress, but they are mostly nginx focused.
coralseaitMemberI do like Soliloquy because I use it in my development for my more premium sites so it is very worth it. You get a range of plugins and add ons that GRS does not have. It is also very fast / efficient. Not to say GSR is bad at all.
Does your VPS have cPanel installed? If you've not had experience with linux and apache (or nginx ) admin before you'll want to do a lot of reading and maybe get an admin to help you - there's a lot to keeping a server up and esp secure.
coralseaitMemberMy Personal selections are
Genesis Responsive slider when I just need a good slider
Soliloquy Slider when I need more advanced or performant featuresNote, I own the developer lifetime Soliloquy so I can't comment on the lite version.
Is your Go Daddy fully self-managed, as in OS and Security and the like?
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