Monthly Archives: October 2010

6 Tips for Making Magento Production Ready

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Ben




During the development of your Magento eCommerce store, performance usually takes a back seat to functionality and design. However, after you’ve installed all of your extensions and have checked the spelling on your last cms page, you’ll want to focus … Continue reading →

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Increase WordPress performance with WPSuperCache

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Sean




Last week, we covered speeding up WordPress with Memcache, which was simple enough, but most shared hosting plans don’t allow you to run memcached. Even if you are allowed to run the memcache daemon on your server and you have … Continue reading →

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Handle More Traffic in WordPress with Memcache

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Sean




Memcache is a High-performance, distributed object caching system. WordPress is a great piece of blogging / CMS software. If you’re running a WordPress site and you’re having growing pains, you can combine the two to handle increased traffic and, more … Continue reading →

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Finding the status of Magento cron jobs / tasks

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Sean




As covered in our last article, you should have a “cron job” (crontab) set up to run Magento’s cron.php file every so often (15 minutes or so is fine) via PHP directly on the server to take care of housekeeping … Continue reading →

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