Author: Otto Kekäläinen
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Seravo’s WordPress Servers Are the Fastest in the World
Read more: Seravo’s WordPress Servers Are the Fastest in the WorldDid you know that Seravo has been ranked as the world’s fastest WordPress hosting service at ismyhostfastyet.com?
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Migrating from deployer.seravo.com to Github actions
Read more: Migrating from deployer.seravo.com to Github actionsThe WordPress.org plugin repository still uses Subversion in 2020, and a lot of developers have been frustrated about this for many years already. Most developers use git as their daily source control versioning system, and going back to running svn commands feels like a step back in time to a previous decade. This is kind…
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Webinar: Use Xdebug to profile PHP
Read more: Webinar: Use Xdebug to profile PHPDuring the COVID-19 outbreak in spring 2020, we cancelled all of our on-site trainings and replaced them with free webinars that proved to be very popular, so we decided to continue with them in fall 2020 as well. Next up is a joint webinar with Xdebug developer Derick Rethans on Wednesday August 19th at 12:00…
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Aki Björklund Joins the Seravo Board
Read more: Aki Björklund Joins the Seravo BoardAki Björklund, one of the pioneers in the Finnish WordPress scene, has joined the board of Seravo. Aki has a long history with WordPress as an entrepreneur, as the head of a digital agency, and as a developer who has also participated in the open-source ecosystem around WordPress. Back in 2010, Aki was one of…
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PCIe-NVMe – Faster Than SSD
Read more: PCIe-NVMe – Faster Than SSDMost people working with computers have first-hand experience of working with solid-state drives that are dramatically faster than the traditional hard drives, as they contain no moving parts. During the recent years a new advancement has been taking hold in the field, a combination of PCIe expansion bus and NVMe device interface that really makes…
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Old TLS Versions Will Be Phased Out in March
Read more: Old TLS Versions Will Be Phased Out in MarchTLS 1.3 has been the primary cryptographic protocol on the Seravo servers since the beginning of the year 2020. Also, we have TLS 1.2 in use. We have now reached the point where older versions TLS 1.1 and 1.0 will be phased out during March 2020. This change may cause some issues if you are…
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Spring Clean WordPress to Make It Secure and Faster
Read more: Spring Clean WordPress to Make It Secure and FasterOver time, even well-maintained WordPress sites tend to accumulate some cruft: excess files, unused plugins, unnecessary database contents, and logs that are lying around. They might not be directly affecting the site but are potentially causing a risk for how well the website works in the future. First of all, think about the environment. The…
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Command Line Tips to Improve WordPress Performance
Read more: Command Line Tips to Improve WordPress PerformanceThere are plenty of WordPress speed optimization articles online, but most of them recommend installing various plugins. Installing more plugins might, unfortunately, make things worse as the plugins themselves slow down WordPress. The plugins might also require learning about a lot of options and settings, and the plugins need to be updated and maintained. Luckily…
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How HTTP/3 Will Make the Internet Faster
Read more: How HTTP/3 Will Make the Internet FasterWhen HTTP/2 was released in 2015 as an official IETF standard it was a major improvement over the old HTTP/1.1 protocol that had been in use since the ’90s. At Seravo we rolled HTTP/2 out for all of our customers in 2016 and we are following with interest the developments around the next major step…
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PHP 7.4 released
Read more: PHP 7.4 releasedThe PHP project announced the release of PHP 7.4 on November 28th, 2019. As usual, they have also published a migration guide to assist developers in updating their code to support PHP 7.4. This release continues to bring smaller gradual improvements to PHP just like 7.3 and 7.2 did, and it does not include drastic…