The updated version of my WP Engine review reveals how they hijacked my business costing thousands of dollars & why you should avoid them. Do not trust your business with them!
How I Earned $30, 587 in 6 Hours Due to Site SpeedMatthew Woodward
Learn how to instantly increase your website profits with my how to guide. Did you know a 1 second delay in loading time leads to a 7% decrease in conversion?
WordPress Maintenance: 14 Essential Tasks to Keep Your Site OptimizedMarshall Reyher
This document discusses 14 essential WordPress maintenance tasks that should be performed regularly to keep a WordPress site optimized and running smoothly. It describes tasks such as creating regular backups, keeping WordPress, themes and plugins updated, optimizing the database, running performance tests, updating passwords, checking contact forms, fixing broken links, deleting spam comments, redirecting 404 errors, clearing caches, removing drafts and unused themes/plugins, cleaning the media library, and auditing old content. Performing these tasks helps ensure a site remains secure, up-to-date and high performing.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Update Buttonchris-koerner
Chris Koerner gives a presentation on how he learned to stop worrying and love updating WordPress. At first, he was nervous about giving the presentation because recent articles suggested updating was no longer a problem. However, after reading comments pointing out ongoing issues, he decided to move forward with it. The presentation covers why updating is important for reasons like getting paid for maintenance, avoiding future problems, and being part of the security solution. It also provides tips on how to update like using development environments, child themes, backups, testing updates, and getting clients onboard. Koerner emphasizes the importance of ongoing updates for the health of the WordPress ecosystem.
This slide deck was the base that Karel and myself used to deliver a web optimization internal training at REA. Hopefully it can helpful for other people interested in the performance optimization area as it contains lots of pointers to valuable resources where you can learn more about the topic.
I may recommend using a view that allow you to view the Notes as some of the slide have some content included in that view.
Sallie Goetsch explains three things website owners need to address in 2017: SSL certificates, intrusive interstitials, and Google AMP. From the East Bay WordPress Meetup, January 2017.
This document provides tips for optimizing a WordPress website for performance. It discusses setting up important WordPress configuration options like using non-default usernames, not storing backups on the server, and choosing responsive templates. It also recommends installing plugins like W3 Total Cache to create static pages and minify files, Broken Link Checker to find broken links, and blocking bad bots with an .htaccess file. The document emphasizes optimizing images, content, and page speed for better search engine rankings and user experience.
This document summarizes and reviews the Site Man Pro cloud-based website building and membership software. It outlines key features such as physical and network security through Amazon servers, easy website creation with no web hosting required, and support for building membership sites, online stores, and more. It also describes several bonus packages that are included to help with blog automation, digital product sales, social media marketing, and backlink building.
The document is a whitepaper on Magento performance optimization. It discusses how websites can slow down over time as new features are added. It emphasizes the importance of performance, noting various studies that show slow page loads negatively impact key metrics like conversion rates. The whitepaper then outlines an approach to performance optimization called a "performance budget" that focuses on loading critical content first before non-essential elements to provide the best user experience. Specific techniques are provided for optimizing content, CSS, JavaScript, servers and caches to achieve faster load times.
How I Earned $30, 587 in 6 Hours Due to Site SpeedMatthew Woodward
Learn how to instantly increase your website profits with my how to guide. Did you know a 1 second delay in loading time leads to a 7% decrease in conversion?
WordPress Maintenance: 14 Essential Tasks to Keep Your Site OptimizedMarshall Reyher
This document discusses 14 essential WordPress maintenance tasks that should be performed regularly to keep a WordPress site optimized and running smoothly. It describes tasks such as creating regular backups, keeping WordPress, themes and plugins updated, optimizing the database, running performance tests, updating passwords, checking contact forms, fixing broken links, deleting spam comments, redirecting 404 errors, clearing caches, removing drafts and unused themes/plugins, cleaning the media library, and auditing old content. Performing these tasks helps ensure a site remains secure, up-to-date and high performing.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Update Buttonchris-koerner
Chris Koerner gives a presentation on how he learned to stop worrying and love updating WordPress. At first, he was nervous about giving the presentation because recent articles suggested updating was no longer a problem. However, after reading comments pointing out ongoing issues, he decided to move forward with it. The presentation covers why updating is important for reasons like getting paid for maintenance, avoiding future problems, and being part of the security solution. It also provides tips on how to update like using development environments, child themes, backups, testing updates, and getting clients onboard. Koerner emphasizes the importance of ongoing updates for the health of the WordPress ecosystem.
This slide deck was the base that Karel and myself used to deliver a web optimization internal training at REA. Hopefully it can helpful for other people interested in the performance optimization area as it contains lots of pointers to valuable resources where you can learn more about the topic.
I may recommend using a view that allow you to view the Notes as some of the slide have some content included in that view.
Sallie Goetsch explains three things website owners need to address in 2017: SSL certificates, intrusive interstitials, and Google AMP. From the East Bay WordPress Meetup, January 2017.
This document provides tips for optimizing a WordPress website for performance. It discusses setting up important WordPress configuration options like using non-default usernames, not storing backups on the server, and choosing responsive templates. It also recommends installing plugins like W3 Total Cache to create static pages and minify files, Broken Link Checker to find broken links, and blocking bad bots with an .htaccess file. The document emphasizes optimizing images, content, and page speed for better search engine rankings and user experience.
This document summarizes and reviews the Site Man Pro cloud-based website building and membership software. It outlines key features such as physical and network security through Amazon servers, easy website creation with no web hosting required, and support for building membership sites, online stores, and more. It also describes several bonus packages that are included to help with blog automation, digital product sales, social media marketing, and backlink building.
The document is a whitepaper on Magento performance optimization. It discusses how websites can slow down over time as new features are added. It emphasizes the importance of performance, noting various studies that show slow page loads negatively impact key metrics like conversion rates. The whitepaper then outlines an approach to performance optimization called a "performance budget" that focuses on loading critical content first before non-essential elements to provide the best user experience. Specific techniques are provided for optimizing content, CSS, JavaScript, servers and caches to achieve faster load times.
Proven ways to improve your website performance optimizing front end and back...Katy Slemon
Looking for proven ways to improve your website performance? Check out performance optimisation tips to enhance the front-end and back-end of your application.
Guide to WordPress Speed Optimization by WP VillaWP Villa
WP Villa is a One Stop destination for WordPress Resources that covers almost everything related to WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tutorials, how to’s, News and a lot more.
This document provides an introduction and overview of various traffic generation techniques that will be covered in an accompanying video series and ebook. The techniques discussed drive both immediate and organic search engine traffic. The document emphasizes obtaining high quality, natural backlinks over time from sources like article directories, social bookmarking sites, Yahoo Answers, blog commenting, Squidoo, Hubpages, and Propeller to help websites rank higher in search engines. Proper keyword research is also recommended before building websites and content.
TechSEO Boost 2021 - The Future Is The Past: Tagging And Tracking Through The...Catalyst
View the recording here: https://www.catalystdigital.com/techseoboost/#on-demand-recordings
Simo Ahava, Co-founder, Simmer
Server-side tagging introduces something of a paradigm shift to setting up marketing data collection for an organization. Instead of burdening the client device with the responsibility for sending data to third-party endpoints, the data streams are instead proxied through a server-side endpoint that your organization owns. This has huge implications on things like data governance, quality, privacy, security, and enrichment. Unlike traditional “server-side tracking”, where data is collected and processed server-to-server, server-side tagging lets you essentially turn a server environment into a tag management solution.
In this talk, Simo Ahava will walk you through this new paradigm, introducing concepts that some of you might remember from pre-Google-Analytics days of web analytics. But server-side tagging is just so much more. Just like tag management for web browsers broke pre-established notions of what it is to deploy marketing pixels on a site, server-side tagging is here to disrupt the outdated approach of stuffing the site full of third-party resource loads and hoping that the users won’t notice.
Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion Mary Jo Sminkey
A number of years ago I presented a talk at cfObjective on building an advanced, custom CF error handler. This talk will go above and beyond that, covering not just CF but JS/Ajax and SQL Server error logging and strategies for debugging errors on live sites. Developers should come away from this talk with lots of ideas for both custom code they can add to their sites as well a variety of open source and 3rd party solutions for error logging and use site analytics to track and fix issues on their live sites. Blog articles expanding on the information presented in this talk will also be published concurrent with the presentation at coldfusionmuse.com.
5 Easy steps to increase your blog trafficMSNZ Ltd.
This slide will be helpful to bloggers who are struggling to get traffic on their blogs. There are many people who are lost in the jungle of SEOs, Back linking etc. At times, we tend to make things too complicated and in that process we ignore real simple things that can very easily get more targeted traffic.
For the last two years I have been earning my money entirely online. Yes, making money online has a bit of a
scammy sound to it but for many people it is a reality, and I am not exaggerating when I say there are regular
people earning 5+ figure a month salaries completely through their online endeavors.
11 Ways to Use Direct Mail To Grow Your Business and Increase ProfitsDigital Downloads
The document discusses best practices for using direct mail to build a high-quality email list. It dispels myths that direct mail does not work for certain businesses, noting that direct mail can work for many industries. It then provides 11 best practices for using direct mail, such as creating a marketing calendar, testing multiple formats and copy, personalizing mailings, driving recipients to a website, and supporting direct mail with other marketing channels. The document emphasizes that direct mail is cost-effective and allows for creativity in separating a business from its competitors.
This document discusses ways to make JavaScript faster in web pages. It recommends loading scripts asynchronously or with defer, preloading scripts, reducing CPU time spent evaluating scripts and function calls, budgeting third-party scripts, ensuring proper compression of scripts, and reviewing code coverage to optimize performance.
Slides from the Web Princess Professional Blog Clinic at #pbevent 2014 at QT Gold Coast.
A talk on how to manage the back end of your WordPress website responsibly
Velocity 2010: Performance Impact, Part Two: More Findings from the Front Lin...Strangeloop
Last year at Velocity, Strangeloop's VP Product, Hooman Beheshti, presented the findings from phase one of Strangeloop’s long-term research into the relationship between web performance and business benefits. The results were also published in Watching Websites. Since then, we’ve received a barrage of questions from the web performance community, which fueled phase two of our study. In this presentation, Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby offers our most recent findings.
Some of the community’s questions were:
* Who were the clients?
* How fast were the pages?
* What acceleration techniques were implemented?
* What happened to the key page components (such as JS size, payload and roundtrips) of the websites?
* How did changing key variables (page load time, payload, number of roundtrips, etc.) affect the outcome?
We’ve been collecting and analyzing data to help us answer these questions, as well as some new ones we’ve thought up along the way. Join us as we present our findings, and help us consider what areas deserve further study.
The document provides a review of the Cloud PBN platform from the perspective of an experienced SEO. It notes that the platform seems geared towards novice users and is missing some advanced features. It suggests improvements like allowing image uploads, merging post and backlink creation, customizing backlink content, and adding more site customization options. The review concludes that with refinements, the platform could become very successful but currently needs more features for experienced SEOs.
THE ULTIMATE BLACKHAT CASH MACHINE - make money onlineEdward806784
This document discusses techniques for cookie stuffing and hiding affiliate links. It provides code for image, iframe, and .htaccess based cookie stuffing methods. It also outlines ways to hide affiliate links using PHP scripts, zero-frame code, modifying links on webpages, and .htaccess files. The document recommends affiliate networks and webcam sites to join, and cautions that cookie stuffing risks getting banned from affiliate programs. It directs to paid forums for more advanced cookie stuffing techniques.
This document summarizes James Tryon's presentation on customizing the WordPress media library. It provides information on plugins and tools for optimizing, finding, creating, organizing, and embedding various types of media. Some highlighted plugins include Simple Image Sizes, Edit Flow, Enable Media Replace, Unsplash, Imsanity, and WP Media Categories. The document also covers tools for media optimization like ImageOptim and services like Cloudflare, and tips for SEO and accessibility.
How To Get Maximum Links Per Minute Using GSA Search Engine Ranker In 5 Simpl...Matthew Woodward
In this article you'll discover why some people fail with GSA Search Engine Ranker while others succeed, along with why it's still the best tool for automated link building and how to profit with it in 2016!
Important Points | Website Maintenance | SwizzardGary Dragul
SWIZZARD's customizable content management system is a software application or a set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content.
Leverage Search and Customize to your Brand within SharePoint 2010Chaitu Madala
Slides from my SharePoint session given on August 12 2011 at SharePoint Saturday The Conference in Washington DC titled "Leverage Search and Customize to your Brand within SharePoint 2010"
Take A Sneaky Peak At How Someone Built & Ranked A Site That Beats Penguin 3....Matthew Woodward
This document provides a case study on how one individual built and ranked a website using only spammy link building techniques. Some key points:
- The individual created a 10-page site on a skincare niche promoting affiliate products and used almost entirely duplicated/PLR content except for a unique homepage.
- Link building was done using GSA Search Engine Ranker to build a tiered link network of spammy, machine-generated content pointing to the site.
- Despite several Google updates targeting low-quality links (Panda, Penguin), the site was able to rank for dozens of keywords and earn over $5,000 total in affiliate commissions to date.
- While some rankings dropped,
Projet de stratégie à 3 ans de l'association Atlantic 2.0
Ce document a été présenté lors de l'Assemblée Générale d'Atlantic 2.0 qui s'est tenue le 4 juillet 2013.
Il fait suite à 5 semaines d'ateliers de travail avec le Conseil d'Administration et l'équipe de l'association, qui ont souhaité repensé la stratégie d'Atlantic 2.0, pour mieux capitaliser sur le succès de ces 5 dernières années.
On y trouve des éléments de la vision à 2020 qui a émergé de ces ateliers, ainsi qu'un projet de stratégie qui a été présenté à l'ensemble des membres lors de l'AG.
La volonté du Conseil d'Administration, du bureau, et de l'équipe est d'ouvrir, sur cette base, la collaboration à l'ensemble des membres, afin de finaliser le projet d'ici la rentrée 2013.
Proven ways to improve your website performance optimizing front end and back...Katy Slemon
Looking for proven ways to improve your website performance? Check out performance optimisation tips to enhance the front-end and back-end of your application.
Guide to WordPress Speed Optimization by WP VillaWP Villa
WP Villa is a One Stop destination for WordPress Resources that covers almost everything related to WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tutorials, how to’s, News and a lot more.
This document provides an introduction and overview of various traffic generation techniques that will be covered in an accompanying video series and ebook. The techniques discussed drive both immediate and organic search engine traffic. The document emphasizes obtaining high quality, natural backlinks over time from sources like article directories, social bookmarking sites, Yahoo Answers, blog commenting, Squidoo, Hubpages, and Propeller to help websites rank higher in search engines. Proper keyword research is also recommended before building websites and content.
TechSEO Boost 2021 - The Future Is The Past: Tagging And Tracking Through The...Catalyst
View the recording here: https://www.catalystdigital.com/techseoboost/#on-demand-recordings
Simo Ahava, Co-founder, Simmer
Server-side tagging introduces something of a paradigm shift to setting up marketing data collection for an organization. Instead of burdening the client device with the responsibility for sending data to third-party endpoints, the data streams are instead proxied through a server-side endpoint that your organization owns. This has huge implications on things like data governance, quality, privacy, security, and enrichment. Unlike traditional “server-side tracking”, where data is collected and processed server-to-server, server-side tagging lets you essentially turn a server environment into a tag management solution.
In this talk, Simo Ahava will walk you through this new paradigm, introducing concepts that some of you might remember from pre-Google-Analytics days of web analytics. But server-side tagging is just so much more. Just like tag management for web browsers broke pre-established notions of what it is to deploy marketing pixels on a site, server-side tagging is here to disrupt the outdated approach of stuffing the site full of third-party resource loads and hoping that the users won’t notice.
Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion Mary Jo Sminkey
A number of years ago I presented a talk at cfObjective on building an advanced, custom CF error handler. This talk will go above and beyond that, covering not just CF but JS/Ajax and SQL Server error logging and strategies for debugging errors on live sites. Developers should come away from this talk with lots of ideas for both custom code they can add to their sites as well a variety of open source and 3rd party solutions for error logging and use site analytics to track and fix issues on their live sites. Blog articles expanding on the information presented in this talk will also be published concurrent with the presentation at coldfusionmuse.com.
5 Easy steps to increase your blog trafficMSNZ Ltd.
This slide will be helpful to bloggers who are struggling to get traffic on their blogs. There are many people who are lost in the jungle of SEOs, Back linking etc. At times, we tend to make things too complicated and in that process we ignore real simple things that can very easily get more targeted traffic.
For the last two years I have been earning my money entirely online. Yes, making money online has a bit of a
scammy sound to it but for many people it is a reality, and I am not exaggerating when I say there are regular
people earning 5+ figure a month salaries completely through their online endeavors.
11 Ways to Use Direct Mail To Grow Your Business and Increase ProfitsDigital Downloads
The document discusses best practices for using direct mail to build a high-quality email list. It dispels myths that direct mail does not work for certain businesses, noting that direct mail can work for many industries. It then provides 11 best practices for using direct mail, such as creating a marketing calendar, testing multiple formats and copy, personalizing mailings, driving recipients to a website, and supporting direct mail with other marketing channels. The document emphasizes that direct mail is cost-effective and allows for creativity in separating a business from its competitors.
This document discusses ways to make JavaScript faster in web pages. It recommends loading scripts asynchronously or with defer, preloading scripts, reducing CPU time spent evaluating scripts and function calls, budgeting third-party scripts, ensuring proper compression of scripts, and reviewing code coverage to optimize performance.
Slides from the Web Princess Professional Blog Clinic at #pbevent 2014 at QT Gold Coast.
A talk on how to manage the back end of your WordPress website responsibly
Velocity 2010: Performance Impact, Part Two: More Findings from the Front Lin...Strangeloop
Last year at Velocity, Strangeloop's VP Product, Hooman Beheshti, presented the findings from phase one of Strangeloop’s long-term research into the relationship between web performance and business benefits. The results were also published in Watching Websites. Since then, we’ve received a barrage of questions from the web performance community, which fueled phase two of our study. In this presentation, Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby offers our most recent findings.
Some of the community’s questions were:
* Who were the clients?
* How fast were the pages?
* What acceleration techniques were implemented?
* What happened to the key page components (such as JS size, payload and roundtrips) of the websites?
* How did changing key variables (page load time, payload, number of roundtrips, etc.) affect the outcome?
We’ve been collecting and analyzing data to help us answer these questions, as well as some new ones we’ve thought up along the way. Join us as we present our findings, and help us consider what areas deserve further study.
The document provides a review of the Cloud PBN platform from the perspective of an experienced SEO. It notes that the platform seems geared towards novice users and is missing some advanced features. It suggests improvements like allowing image uploads, merging post and backlink creation, customizing backlink content, and adding more site customization options. The review concludes that with refinements, the platform could become very successful but currently needs more features for experienced SEOs.
THE ULTIMATE BLACKHAT CASH MACHINE - make money onlineEdward806784
This document discusses techniques for cookie stuffing and hiding affiliate links. It provides code for image, iframe, and .htaccess based cookie stuffing methods. It also outlines ways to hide affiliate links using PHP scripts, zero-frame code, modifying links on webpages, and .htaccess files. The document recommends affiliate networks and webcam sites to join, and cautions that cookie stuffing risks getting banned from affiliate programs. It directs to paid forums for more advanced cookie stuffing techniques.
This document summarizes James Tryon's presentation on customizing the WordPress media library. It provides information on plugins and tools for optimizing, finding, creating, organizing, and embedding various types of media. Some highlighted plugins include Simple Image Sizes, Edit Flow, Enable Media Replace, Unsplash, Imsanity, and WP Media Categories. The document also covers tools for media optimization like ImageOptim and services like Cloudflare, and tips for SEO and accessibility.
How To Get Maximum Links Per Minute Using GSA Search Engine Ranker In 5 Simpl...Matthew Woodward
In this article you'll discover why some people fail with GSA Search Engine Ranker while others succeed, along with why it's still the best tool for automated link building and how to profit with it in 2016!
Important Points | Website Maintenance | SwizzardGary Dragul
SWIZZARD's customizable content management system is a software application or a set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content.
Leverage Search and Customize to your Brand within SharePoint 2010Chaitu Madala
Slides from my SharePoint session given on August 12 2011 at SharePoint Saturday The Conference in Washington DC titled "Leverage Search and Customize to your Brand within SharePoint 2010"
Take A Sneaky Peak At How Someone Built & Ranked A Site That Beats Penguin 3....Matthew Woodward
This document provides a case study on how one individual built and ranked a website using only spammy link building techniques. Some key points:
- The individual created a 10-page site on a skincare niche promoting affiliate products and used almost entirely duplicated/PLR content except for a unique homepage.
- Link building was done using GSA Search Engine Ranker to build a tiered link network of spammy, machine-generated content pointing to the site.
- Despite several Google updates targeting low-quality links (Panda, Penguin), the site was able to rank for dozens of keywords and earn over $5,000 total in affiliate commissions to date.
- While some rankings dropped,
Projet de stratégie à 3 ans de l'association Atlantic 2.0
Ce document a été présenté lors de l'Assemblée Générale d'Atlantic 2.0 qui s'est tenue le 4 juillet 2013.
Il fait suite à 5 semaines d'ateliers de travail avec le Conseil d'Administration et l'équipe de l'association, qui ont souhaité repensé la stratégie d'Atlantic 2.0, pour mieux capitaliser sur le succès de ces 5 dernières années.
On y trouve des éléments de la vision à 2020 qui a émergé de ces ateliers, ainsi qu'un projet de stratégie qui a été présenté à l'ensemble des membres lors de l'AG.
La volonté du Conseil d'Administration, du bureau, et de l'équipe est d'ouvrir, sur cette base, la collaboration à l'ensemble des membres, afin de finaliser le projet d'ici la rentrée 2013.
Evening Pitch #15 Tech & Food
(par Atlantic 2.0 à la Cantine Numérique Nantes)
- Côtelettes et tarte aux fraises
- 10-vins
- Vins et indépendances
- My Cooker
- P'tit Raisin
How to Fix a Slow WordPress Site (and get A+ scores)Lewis Ogden
Full Guide - https://bitsfrombytes.com/why-is-wordpress-slow/
In this site speed optimization guide, we provide 25-Tips to get blazing fast website speeds of under 0.5s.
Reducing Server Resources: Improve Costs, SEO, Conversions & UXMichael Jones
A presentation I gave at the Melbourne SEO Meetup event in January 2015, this was a case study I undertook based on the experiences I was thrust into by managing my own websites and my web hosting provider.
As part of this presentation, I go through the issues i faced, how i diagnosed the problems, the solutions I put forward and finally, the results I saw.
Even though it wasn't exactly a great experience at the time, I actually learnt quite a lot and wish I has implemented the solutions much earlier. If there is one take away from my presentation, it's implement a CDN solution - the time to implement one is minimal and the ROI and potential UX improvements are phenomenal.
Please feel free to ask any questions in the comment box below, email me at info@holidaypoint.com.au, or if you live in Melbourne, come to the dedicated SEO Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-SEO/
Build your website before you install wordpress.Russell Aaron
The document provides guidance on planning a website build before installing WordPress. It emphasizes the importance of having a plan, outlining each page and how they will function before beginning development. It warns against relying solely on themes and plugins without understanding what functionality is actually needed for the site. The document stresses educating clients on limitations and setting appropriate expectations for timelines.
What is WordPress? WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today.
The document provides tips for setting up and running a WordPress site. It recommends starting with a host that offers a dedicated IP address to avoid downtime caused by other sites. Key plugins are discussed like Akismet for spam protection and All in One SEO. Backups should be handled through the hosting company's tools. The document also provides tips for testing themes and plugins, securing WordPress, and making posting and content management easy.
Learn how to create website backups and why it is important to create the website backups today. Learn here why one should create backups for their websites
WPblog's Ultimate WordPress Guide to Boost Your Website Performance Jessica Ervin
Your website performance is crucial to its success. It is essential that you analyse your website’s speed and take critical steps to improve performance metrics. If you don’t, If you don’t, not only do you lose visitors, but you might be losing a lot of business as well.
For this reason, WPblog has released a complete guide on WordPress performance optimization where you can learn how to analyse your website speed, and improve its performance.
Source: https://www.wpblog.com/ebook-library/wordpress-performance-optimization
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Magic Submitter is an all-in-one content submission tool that claims to combine the functions of multiple SEO tools for a low monthly price. It can automatically submit content to websites, forums, blogs, social media and more. The review examines Magic Submitter's features and capabilities, compares it to similar tools, and discusses both advantages like the developer's strong support and disadvantages like potential issues with refunds. Based on research and user feedback, the reviewer concludes that Magic Submitter is a good affordable option for automating many SEO tasks, though more advanced users may prefer the more powerful but pricier SENuke X.
Magic Submitter is an all-in-one content submission tool that claims to combine the functions of multiple SEO tools for a low monthly price. It can automatically submit content to websites, forums, blogs, social media and more. The review finds that while Magic Submitter is slower than some competitors, it offers good customer support and a low price point. Some disadvantages are issues with video submissions and slow official support. However, the developer provides helpful direct support. The review concludes that for most users, Magic Submitter is a good affordable option, but more advanced users may prefer more powerful tools like SENuke X.
The ultimate-step-by-step-guide-for-free-traffickejart
This document provides a 10-step guide for generating free traffic to a website. The steps include keyword research and article writing, optimizing the website, adding URLs to search engines and social bookmarking sites, getting high page rank backlinks, creating blogs on sites like Squidoo, using social media, participating in blog comments and forums, using free classified ads, making YouTube videos, and continuing to expand efforts. The goal is to build "roads" and "bridges" from various online sources to bring potential visitors to the website "island" through both search engines and social media exposure.
This document discusses important considerations for choosing WordPress plugins. It notes that plugins can expand a site's functionality but can also bloat the site and slow it down if too many are installed. The document recommends only installing essential plugins and checking that plugins are actively updated, have many downloads, and have support available. It also advises checking that plugins don't significantly increase page load time or fail to fit with the site's overall design.
Part of the SPBiz Conference, a real-world look at some basic and complex SharePoint scenarios that did not go so well. However, each issue has a solution or an alternate method to resolve it. In this presentation, we follow a six step process to analyze, solve and prevent SharePoint issues & "debacles".
How to fix 504 Gateway Timeout Error on your WordPress Website?Anny Rathore
The document discusses the 504 Gateway Timeout Error that can occur on WordPress websites and provides recommendations for fixing it. The 504 error occurs when a server acting as a gateway does not receive a timely response from another server. Common causes include server timeouts, slow servers, insufficient PHP workers, firewall issues, and network problems. Recommended fixes involve reloading pages, checking different browsers/devices, disabling proxies, ensuring DNS propagation, temporarily disabling CDNs, checking hosting providers, cleaning spam/bots, updating plugins/themes, examining logs, and adjusting Nginx options. Contacting support is suggested if the error persists.
How to Start a WordPress Blog easily (from A to Z)Peter Nguyen
In this article, I will guide you about how to start a WordPress blog with in 6 steps easily. This article is very basic but I think that many guys will be interested in it. I know that many people here want to create a website for their own online business such as an online shop, a personal site or a news blog.
Table of Contents
1. Why you should make a website by yourself?
2. Some basic concepts about a WordPress blog
2.1. What is WordPress?
2.2. Domain name
2.3. Web Hosting
3. Steps to start a WordPress blog
Step 1: Choosing a domain
Step 2: Choosing a web hosting
Step 3: Installing WordPress on your site
Step 4: Pointing your domain name to hosting
Step 5: Choosing a theme for your WordPress blog
Step 6: Choosing plugins for your WordPress blog
4. Conclusion
Source: https://ecoupon.io/how-to-start-a-wordpress-blog-easily/
Script engage 2.0 review and huge bonus.
Script have interaction is a copywriting software that lets in you the capability to create replica on call for. Script engage lets in you to reply some questions to what we call the “Avatar” that is routinely stored as a profile. Then you may have the potential to generate heaps of scripts
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Discover 7 Ways To Grow Your Audience & Create Fans!Matthew Woodward
When you hit publish on your awesome blog, do you feel like you are just talking to yourself?
Have you tried every tactic, tip & hack in the book and still only your friends and family showed up to the party?
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How WP Engine Hijacked My Business & Why They Can Not Be Trusted
1. matthewwoodward.co.uk
http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/reviews/webhost-trusted-wp-engine-hijacked-business-avoid-them/
[UPDATE2] Why Your Webhost Cannot Be Trusted – How WP
Engine Hijacked My Business
When I first moved my hosting over to WP Engine I was highly impressed. They were very helpful, support took
ownership of problems and site speed was incredible.
As someone that has been in the game as long as I have it is rare to find a hosting company that provided the
level of support they did.
But over the past 8 months things have really started to go downhill with WPEngine in a serious way. I have gone
from singing their praises to everyone I meet to telling everyone to avoid them.
Here is an example of just some of the things they have done-
Deleting live customer data without taking a backup
Injecting a link to their homepage in my footer without permission
Lots of site down time/slow loading
Losing connecting to the server in the post editor
Disabled fulltext mysql indexing without notification – this broke my RSS feed costing 60% of subscribers
Repeat broken promises from their co-founder
Support is a rolling joke
If I could write a list of things that a web host should never do – WP Engine has done them all. They are no longer
the hassle-free wordpress hosting experts they claim to be.
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In this post I will share my WPEngine experience across the last 18 months and above all, apologise to all of the
readers that moved their sites over to WP-Engine off the back of my advice.
I am truly sorry about all of the problems you guys have had.
So let’s get down to business and why you should avoid WP Engine.
Setting The Standard
When I first moved over to WPEngine 18 months ago the experience was absolutely awesome.
The support team were passionate about WordPress and it was clear they were experts at what they did. They
knew WordPress inside out and were able to resolve any issue for you whether it was with a theme, plugin or
WordPress core.
I was amazed with everything they did – I can’t stress enough just how awesome they were.
Unfortunately setting this standard of awesomeness has ultimately led to my continued frustration and
disappointment with them for a number of reasons.
Now the support team are clueless, it’s like a bunch of people that don’t really know anything about WordPress
have taken over and are just typing a script back to you.
Some of the responses they give are comical at best – I’ll be sharing them throughout this post.
2. WPEngine pride themselves on how fast they are, so let’s start with that.
Website Speed
When I first moved over to WP Engine my sites load time improved by 27% which was worth an extra $16,609 per
year to me.
This was one of the main reasons I moved to WP-Engine, but over time that has seriously degraded-
Loading the WP-admin login screen took 29 seconds
Logging into WP-admin took 27 seconds
Loading the comments area in the back end took 54 seconds
Approving a comment took 28 seconds
Loading a list of posts took 29 seconds
To put that in perspective to login and approve 1 comment it would take a total of 2 minutes & 38 seconds.
For every comment on the blog I wanted to approve, it took 54 seconds. That is a serious problem when you get
as many comments as I do.
If you want to experience the pain in real time just watch this video-
Pretty painful right? Especially when they continue to advertise themselves as ‘insanely fast’.
Basically whenever the site has to read from or write to the MYSQL database the server cannot handle it. All of
this started in the first week of May 2013.
502/504 Bad Gateway Errors
Continuing with the trend of database problems I started to get 502/504 bad gateway errors on the front end and
back end of the site which started in the middle of May 2013.
As the months went on the problems got worse until 5 months later in October 2013 the site was completely
unworkable. This was also the period when their support started to seriously degrade.
Instead of taking ownership of issues and fixing them like they used to, they consistently palm you off with
irrelevant excuses & finger pointing.
The 502/504 bad gateway errors were causing a number of issues-
First of all it was taking my readers nearly 20 seconds to load posts on the blog. Even with their bespoke front end
caching technology – which causes its own set of problems.
If shaving just 1.848 seconds off my load time was worth an extra $16,609 to me a year, imagine how much
money I was losing when load times increased 4 times over to 20 seconds.
Even my $0.99 per month host could load the site in 6.620 seconds.
Secondly, anytime I was trying to write or edit a post I was getting the “Connection lost. Saving has been disabled
until you’re reconnected. We’re backing up this post in your browser, just in case.” error.
This means that my local machine was losing connection with the server and timing out completely. This
happened every single time I tried to edit, write or publish a post without fail.
My previous $0.99 per month host didn’t have that problem.
3. Time To First Byte
On top of all of the above I had noticed that the Time To First Byte (TTFB) had increased to over 1 second.
This is the amount of time it takes to receive the first byte of data from the server after requesting a URL in your
browser.
That is before the WordPress application, theme, plugins or files start to load. Bear that point in mind throughout
this post as those are the things they always tried to blame.
This is also one of the key things that Google uses to determine site speed and search rankings.
Let The /Facepalms Begin!
Now I should point out when it comes to servers & hardware – I know my stuff.
I usually play dumb with most things to see if people are honest and the WP Engine support team have failed that
test at every hurdle.
It was clear to me there was a bottleneck with the MYSQL database somewhere and 502/504 errors are usually
because the server has run out of resources to process the request.
These are the things the WP Engine team tried to blame for the huge decreases in site speed and huge increases
in 502/504 errors.
Update Plugins
The first thing was that outdated plugins will slow your site down. Here is the exact quote-
4. Which is funny, because the site had been using the exact same plugin versions when it was lightning fast.
But apparently because there were updates available to the plugins that slows your entire site down.
Database Table Size
The next thing they tried to blame was that a table in the database was too big. The table was only 50MB in size,
the size a budget webhost can handle.
This table was part of the OIOPublisher plugin that I use to serve banner ads on the site that would log stats when
a reader loaded a page on the front end of the website.
They blamed the size of the table & the plugin itself, even though the plugin wasn’t getting called on the backend
where most of the issues were.
I also pointed out to them that other much bigger blogs used the exact same plugin and were still lightning fast so
it was unlikely the plugin was the issue.
I had also been running the exact same version of plugin for months without an issue – so on top of the above, it
just didn’t make sense that was the issue.
But it was an easy issue for them to blame. So I did what they asked of me and it should come as no surprise that
didn’t fix the issue.
5. It took them nearly 2 weeks to get to that after opening the initial ticket. What happened to all of the Worpdress
experts?
Dodging Resource Allocation
One of the things I continued to ask support was how much actual CPU/RAM resource was allocated to each
customers site.
This seems to be a very sticky question for WP Engine – a question I have asked over and over and over again, I
even asked the co-founder to his face at Affiliate Summit.
The question either gets completely ignored or answered in a very vague way. If you are a current WP Engine
customer ask the question, it’s funny watching them squirm with the answer.
Right from the beginning I had suspected they had overloaded servers and were unable to cope with their rapid
growth.
After 2 weeks of going back and to with excuses they finally admitted the server was overloaded and they were
going to move my site to a different server to see if that helps.
6. Problem solved right? Wrong.
Break All The Things
When they moved me over to a new server not only was the site still slow, but now I had no access to FTP and
users could not login – even I was locked out of my own admin area.
This was because when they moved the site to a new server, they proxied over the old IP to the new IP internally
so there would be no downtime on the front end which is a fantastic solution – if it worked.
First of all WP Engine installs a plugin called Limit Login. They don’t tell you they have done this, it doesn’t appear
in your list of plugins and you can’t change the settings. It is completely invisible to you as the website owner.
So every time a user logged in, because of how they proxied over the IP it appeared that every single user was
logging in from the same IP and performing a brute force attack on the site which locked everyone out including
me.
Luckily I had the knowledge to get into PHPMyAdmin and manually change the setting in the database to unlock it
so at least I could access the admin area of my site.
At the same time I had no FTP access – it took nearly 5 days of going back and to with them to get a resolution. If
I didn’t have the knowledge to unblock my admin access myself, I would have also been without admin access for
5 days as well.
7. As you can see I was starting to lose my patience with them. Even when you told them exactly what was wrong &
exactly what needed to change to fix things – they still argued the point.
Until eventually they realised I was spot on with the solution, the first time I told it to them. Never mind the 3rd, 4th
& 5th time.
So at this point, the site is on a new server, it is still slow, I had no FTP access for 5 days and if it wasn’t for my
manual intervention I wouldn’t have had WP-Admin access for 5 days either.
Then just a few days later-
8. The blog had just hit the most popular story of the week on Inbound.org which was driving a lot of targeted traffic,
if the site was actually online.
It was down for a total of 3 hours during what would of been a record setting day of traffic.
So much for the new server huh!
Deleting Live Customer Data Without Permission Or Backup
Less than 10 days later the site was down again reporting the same 502/503 bad gateway issues that were first
reported to them over 6 months earlier on May 16th.
9. Continuing on the trend of excuses, this time they tried to blame the number of comments in the database.
So without my permission the WP Engine team took it upon themselves to clear out all of the spam comments on
the live database without taking a backup first.
The problem with that is an awful lot of you guys get flagged as spam when you’re not, so I go through the spam
comments manually each month to approve the genuine ones.
Plus after deleting my live data without my prior permission or taking a backup, it didn’t actually fix the problem! I
was not a happy bunny.
10. Then they tried to blame the fact that the site was getting too many spam comments and was slowing the entire
server down.
I checked the logs myself and the site was only getting 1-2 spam comments per minute. When I publish a new
11. post I get more genuine comments per minute than that!
Even a budget web host could handle that load!
The solution – install a captcha form to stop all the spammers. Ironically the WordPress & security experts were
unaware I could solve 1,000 captchas for just $1.39 while I’m asleep.
All that adding a captcha form does is inconvenience genuine users, it certainly doesn’t stop spammers.
All they needed to do was put the same time & effort into resolving problems as they put into creating excuses.
Grilling The Co-Founder Directly
At this point over 7 months after opening the first ticket about the speed problems, my patience was exhausted.
I flew half way around the world to Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas to find the WP Engine co-founder Ben Metcalfe
and explained all of the issues I have had.
He assured me that he would take control of the problems and resolve them all, not only that but he would give me
6 months of hosting free of charge.
Awesome! I was confident that everything was going to get fixed. Unfortunately the very next morning the site was
down for nearly an hour.
After Affiliate Summit was over WPEngine got in touch with me to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.
Here is the full email conversation that we had – notice how they dodge the resource question, again.
12.
13. At last they had their best guys working on the problem, after 7 months of complaining and flying half way around
the world!
I could sit back in confidence knowing that all of my issues would be resolved at long last.
I was wrong.
Amateur WordPress Experts
It turned out that their ‘top guys’ were just as clueless about how servers and WordPress works as anyone else.
Instead of trying to blame a plugin, this time they tried to blame the .htaccess file
14. Their top tech guy didn’t understand what basic level .htaccess code did. I don’t think I need to say anything more
than that.
Emergency Account Migration
During this period I also got a notification they had migrated my site to another server, again.
15. This time they had identified that the site was using over 50% of the servers resources.
Which is funny because that is precisely what would be causing the 502/504 bad gateway errors I had reported to
them 8 months earlier.
And just like the last time they migrated the site to a new server, they failed to check if everything was working
properly which it wasn’t.
If All Else Fails, Ignore The Customer
Giving their top tech guys credit where credit is due, they came back with a list of possible reasons the site was
performing so badly.
Well not really, they just installed a free plugin which gives you a basic overview of things.
The same guy that didn’t understand the basics of .htaccess was also trying to blame a plugin called MShots but
he couldn’t locate it on my blog.
The reason he couldn’t locate it is because it’s part of WordPress core functionality straight out of the box.
You would expect a WordPress expert to know what is a plugin and what is a core WordPress function.
16. Anyway we continued to do the dance, but dancing gets very tiring after doing it non-stop for 8 months.
17. That was the last I heard from support about the speed issues. They didn’t even bother to reply to the ticket after
that.
After 6 days had passed and the site continued to be slow and/or unavailable I was getting flocks of complaints
from readers. Enough was enough.
I sent this email to the co-founder & the rest of the top brass at WP Engine
Guess what happened next?
Absolutely nothing. Support never replied and neither did the co-founder who had promised to my face that he
would resolve all of the issues and give me 6 months free hosting as compensation.
So after 8 months of the same issues, pathetic
excuses from support, flying half way around
the world and speaking to the co-founder
directly the ‘WordPress Experts’ couldn’t be
arsed to reply.
That tells you everything you need to know
about the company, the co-founder & how they
treat their customers.
Do you trust your business with someone that
handles themselves like that?
Using Customers Sites To Build A
Link Network
I noticed a few days later that there was a keyword stuffed link to the WP Engine homepage in my blogs footer.
18. That was strange because I hadn’t put it there and it wasn’t visible in the footer.php file of my theme.
So how on earth was a link to the WP Engine homepage appearing on my blog?
If you take a look in the very bottom left corner of the screenshot below you can see it for yourself, they did a very
good job at hiding it!
How sneaky is that? They were dynamically inserting a keyword stuffed link to their homepage at the server level.
I couldn’t manually remove it!
Ben responded pretty quickly and promised to follow up with a call-
I told Ben not to worry and to just give me a call on Monday.
But in true WP Engine style that call never came, even when I followed up via email – that was ignored as well.
19. What makes this even worse is the fact that genuine businesses that have had their websites penalised or
deindexed from Google completely for less than that.
But WP Engine still rank for the target term!
Deleted 60% Of My RSS Subscribers
It has taken me over 20 months of hard work to build up my RSS subscribers. It took WP Engine minutes to wipe
out 60% of that effort.
That is 12 months hard work building my RSS subscriber base completely wiped out without a blink of an eye from
WP Engine.
Around the start of April a reader emailed me to let me know my RSS feed wasn’t working. When I took a look at
the source code of the feed I noticed this message-
“The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes”
At that time I was actually sat with one of the head developers from the BBC. He took a look at it and told me
exactly what was wrong.
Basically WP Engine had changed their MYSQL configuration to disable full text indexing – which my RSS feed
relied on to function properly.
They had made this configuration change to the server without any kind of customer notification.
20. So with that knowledge in mind and
confirming that was the issue with a few
Google searches I opened a support ticket.
All they needed to do to fix the issue was
enable full text indexing on the MYSQL
database again. Its a 60 second job for
anyone that knows what they are doing.
I told them what the exact issue was and what
needed to change for it to be fixed, instead of
just fixing it they continued with their usual
line of excuses and palming the issue off.
Here is a list of excuses they came up with for
that-
A link to an irrelevant issue on
WordPress forums
I had uploaded files that were not part of WordPress (eg the PDF files behind the social lockers)
Blackhat SEO applications & videos – a zip file containing a copy of my windows based software & a folder
with MP4 video files
The developer of a plugin – the plugin was working fine until THEY changed THEIR config
Uploading any file to your account means they cannot provide any level of support
The level of stupidity displayed here is beyond what I’m able to put into words. None of those excuses had
ANYTHING to do with MYSQL.
They might as well have said your RSS feed is broken because you brushed your teeth this morning.
What they should of said is sorry we changed
our server configuration without telling you
which broke your RSS feed & wiped out 12
months of your hard work. However we have
now re-enabled that for your account.
Here is the full support ticket with them about
that issue – which in true WP Engine fashion
they just ignored and stopped replying to. At
least they are consistent in one thing!
21.
22. The funny thing is when I eventually moved to my new host and told them about the problem, they fixed it in less
than 2 minutes.
Take a guess at what they did to fix it? They enabled fulltext MYSQL indexing on the table. If you don’t know
anything about server configs I can’t stress how basic that is.
23. I wouldn’t like to put a $$$ value on what that specific issue cost me with WP Engine.
It took 20 months to build it to that level and WP Engine wiped out 12 months of that effort without a blink of the
eye, which is the WPEngine way apparently!
Testing The Co-Founder’s Promise
When I spoke to the WP Engine co-founder at Affiliate Summit he told me they would give me 6 months free
hosting as compensation for the problems I have had.
That never actually happened so 4 months after he made that promise I opened a ticket to see what was going
on.
Yet again, that ticket went unanswered and was actually marked as solved the next day.
Turns out the co-founders promises are worth nothing. That is the kind of person you are trusting your business
with when using WP Engines hosting services.
24. Terminating My Account
At the same time I had the ticket open about the RSS feed issue and asking about the co-founder’s promise of 6
months hosting – WP Engine decided to terminate my account.
Instead of taking 2 minutes to fix the problem they created when they changed their server configuration without
notification and keeping their promise they decided to just cancel my contract with them.
They didn’t even provide a reason for that. When I asked for the reason they said to see the first communication
which didn’t provide a reason. Such is the WP Engine support merry go round.
They did this on the 18th of April with 7 days notice. Except in the UK the 18th-21st was a public bank holiday.
They terminated my account with just 3 working days notice.
That was also during a period I was packing and planning to move country. Suddenly I had to drop everything,
find a reliable new host and move the entire site.
The knock on effect of that was the time I had planned to spend seeing friends & family for the last time, was
spent running around cleaning up their mess.
When You Think It Is All Over
You would think that once WP Engine terminates your account and your website is no longer hosted by them, that
25. would be the end of the problems.
But they weren’t finished with the clown act just yet!
They terminated my account as promised on the 24th of April 2014. Then on the 25th April they took money from
my credit card for the next month of service.
The service they had just terminated. So even though I was no longer a customer with them, they continued to
take money directly from my bank account.
Not only that but they actually hijacked the money for 10 days! Given all of the costs of moving to a new host I
could have done with that money in my account.
But we have established the WP Engine doesn’t care about their customers or your business so that shouldn’t
come as a surprise.
What Do Other People Say About WP Engine?
26. When I was at Affiliate Summit I spoke to a bunch of people about my problems with WP Engine and I was
surprised to hear that I wasn’t the only one.
I also knew that my friend from MyTanFeet was having similar problems with them – I felt bad because he moved
his hosting to WP Engine based on my recommendation.
If you moved your hosting to WP Engine based on my previous advice I can’t stress how truly sorry I am for that!
Here is just some of the feedback I got from my readers about WP Engine when I mentioned the problems in last
month’s income report-
27.
28. As you can see the verdict is pretty much unanimous.
Which Hosting Company Can You Trust?
When WP Engine terminated my hosting I was in a desperate situation. I reached out to some people for advice
and Terry Kyle quite literally saved the day.
Terry Kyle is someone I have looked up to for years, he runs the Traffic Planet forums and knows his stuff when it
comes to SEO & internet marketing.
He also runs Traffic Planet Hosting which competes directly with WP Engine & his support team took care of
everything for me.
Not only did they move the site, they fixed all of the problems that WP Engine could not fix. Remember the RSS
issue that had the WPEngine team stumped even though I told them exactly how to fix it?
That took them 2 minutes to sort out. They also took care of optimising the blogs load times & setup the CDN for
29. me. It was a truly painless experience during a moment of panic & desperation mid-moving country.
I cannot thank them enough for that! That level of service & support reminds me of the early days of WP-Engine.
Traffic Planet Hosting vs WP Engine
So on top of the great service & support that Traffic Planet Hosting has offered so far, what else do they do offer
that WP Engine don’t?
Not only are they cheaper, they offer a huge range of features that WP Engine don’t.
One of the main ones is email support. If you host your site with WP Engine you need to buy additional hosting
just for your email! That is not the case with Traffic Planet Hosting.
The Site Speed Challenge
However price & features aren’t everything – one of my main concerns is site speed, after all site speed is money!
30. So who is actually faster – WP Engine or Traffic Planet Hosting? There is only one way to find out!
I ran a series of speed tests before the site was moved from WP Engine & then repeated the same tests after it
was moved to Traffic Planet Hosting.
I tested the home page, my top 100 blog tutorial and loading WP-Admin. I chose these pages because they were
either the most visited, the most resource intensive or a combination of both.
I also tested each of these pages from the USA & from Amsterdam to make sure the site loaded quickly on both
sides of the pond.
I used Pingdom (P) and WebPageTest (W) to test each of the 3 pages from both locations to be 100% confident in
the results.
WP Engine Site Speed Results
Page USA (P) Amsterdam (P) USA (W) Amsterdam (W)
Home 0.846s 1.970s 4.178s 4.279s
Tutorial 5.470s 6.270s 26.112s 21.088s
WP-Admin 2.420s 2.700s 5.596s 6.889s
Traffic Planet Hosting Site Speed Results
Page USA (P) Amsterdam (P) USA (W) Amsterdam (W)
Home 0.740s 1.270s 4.022s 4.058s
Tutorial 4.780s 5.580s 21.832s 16.892s
WP-Admin 1.350s 1.810s 5.729s 4.567s
Who Is Faster? Site Speed Summary
Using the WP Engine results as a benchmark, the table below shows if Traffic Planet Hosting was faster or slower.
So if you see -20% that means Traffic Planet Hosting was 20% faster. If you see +20% that means WP Engine
31. was 20% faster.
Page USA (P) Amsterdam (P) USA (W) Amsterdam (W)
Home -12.52% -35.53% -3.73% -5.16%
Tutorial -12.61% -11.00% -16.39% -19.89%
WP-Admin -44.21% -32.96% +2.37% -33.70%
As you can see, it is quite clear that Traffic Planet Hosting is considerably faster than WP Engine.
On average Traffic Planet Hosting is 18.77% faster than WP Engine.
Not only that but Traffic Planet Hosting only costs me $49.99 a month compared to WP Engine’s $212.00 in
March.
WP Engine has a strange pricing system that changes based on how many visitors you have. I was on their $99 a
month plan that allows 100,000 visits per month.
After that you pay $1 per 1,000 visitors so I had to pay an extra $113 in March.
And when they say 100,000 visitors they don’t actually mean 100,000 visitors. What they actually mean is 100,000
page requests, which is open to abuse.
For example I could buy 20,000 visitors from Fiverr for $5 and send them to your website. That would cost you
$20 but it only cost me $5. Or I could just load up Scrapebox & have full control over your bill.
Either way Traffic Planet Hosting is 18% faster & 76% cheaper than WPEngine.
Oh and the support team actually knows what they are doing which helps.
Traffic Planet Hosting Update 31/05/2014
On the 30th of May the Traffic Planet Hosting data centre had a power failure which resulted in corrupted
databases.
This led to a total of 8 hours and 14 minutes of downtime in total which is less than ideal.
Power failures do happen which can cause all sorts of problems, but I’m going to be keeping a close eye on the
situation.
Wrapping It Up
It is a shame to see the demise of WP Engine in this manner. Like I said at the start of the article they were one of
the best hosting companies I had ever worked with by quite a stretch.
In my corporate career I have dealt with a range of hosting companies from the likes of RackSpace to HostGator –
none of them could stand up to the service & support WP Engine used to offer.
In my opinion when WP Engine first started it was a business founded out of passion & innovation. That was clear
from the level of support and knowledge displayed when I first moved over.
However I think they grew too quickly over the past couple of years which has caused them major problems.
Now instead of dealing with actual WordPress experts, you’re dealing with customer service staff that have had
minor WordPress training & fail to understand the basics.
Last year Heather Brunner became COO which probably led to changes in how the company operates. Is it a
32. coincidence the service & support started to degrade shortly after?
Then you have to consider the $15 million investment by venture capitalist firm North Bridge which pushes the
focus towards money & profits rather than passion & innovation. /
Investors don’t care about your business or your website, they only care about 1 thing – profit. It is also worth
noting the passionate co-founder left the company shortly after that investment.
It feels like they have undergone serious cost cutting exercises to the demise of the service & support. I’ve worked
in a number of companies where this has happened and it has never turned out well.
WP Engine need to remind themselves of their own values and if they had just followed their own customer
support strategy I wouldn’t be writing this post.
There is a certain irony in that!
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My advice is if you are a WP Engine customer – move your business away from them as quickly as possible.
My experience with Traffic Planet Hosting has been awesome so far – hopefully they don’t follow WP Engines
lead.
WPEngine Responds
The WPEngine team have published a couple of responses on their blog this week.
The first one was very disappointing and just the usual marketing/PR propaganda with no actual substance or
ownership behind it.
Anyone with any experience in marketing & PR will see straight through that.
The second one had a bit more substance to it but still failed to address the majority of issues highlighted.
For example they continue to dodge questions about-
Resource allocation
Why so many customers suffer from the same problems (see comments)
Why so many customers reported these issues to them & were repeatedly ignored (see comments)
Why the support team no longer contains WordPress experts like they advertise on the front end – in their
first response they admit support staff rely on a knowledge base. Eg they have hired people that know
nothing about WordPress
Why they have a careless attitude towards the damage done to customers businesses, not even an
apology
Why they change server configs without notifying customers that break peoples sites/businesses
Why website speed/load times/mysql issues have got worse over time
Why they feel its ok to delete live customer data without permission or backup
Why they flat out ignore customers at support & senior levels if they can’t resolve a problem
Why they failed to keep their co-founders promises
Why they deploy links on customers sites without permission
Why they terminated my account
Why they continue to take customers money after ending service with them
33. So all in all, the responses don’t really address any of the issues highlighted. Unless you accept ‘growth’ as a
universal answer to all of that.
It would be nice to see them take some level of ownership & responsibility for the damage they have done to their
customers businesses – I doubt that is going to happen.
I also asked them to refund all of the money I had paid to them & everyone that I had referred to them as an
affiliate – they ignored that as well.
What Else Don’t They Tell You
There is something else that they do to your website without your permission or telling you.
When you move your site over to WPEngine they make serious WPEngine specific changes to core WordPress
files.
They don’t tell you what they have changed or which files they have made those changes in.
But what this means is when you try to move your site away from WPEngine, you are going to have a hard time
getting it to work properly on another host.
I’m currently investigating this further but I will update in due course with my findings.
Are WPEngine Just A Glorified Reseller?
Added on 28th May 2014
One of the comments from Joseph pointed out that WPEngine are listed as a client of Linode who are a cloud
hosting company.
It appears that WPEngine are just renting out cloud servers from Linode and then reselling them as premium
hosting.
If you take a look at the price plans you can get an awful lot more bang for your buck than you can with WPEngine.
Not only that but you can have your own dedicated environment that won’t be overloaded with other clients paying
a premium price.
After reading about the WPEngine infrastructure you would expect they actually have their own infrastructure.
But it seems that they are nothing but glorified shared hosting resellers with flashy branding and premium pricing
rather than the hosting experts they claim to be.