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Managed WordPress Hosting vs VPS: Who Owns the Failure?

Post category:Hosting & Infrastructure Web Hosting WordPress

Managed WordPress hosting and a self-managed VPS can both serve a fast site. They differ on which failures land on you. A practical comparison covering visit metering, disallowed plugin policies, silent backup failure, patching debt, and a cost model that survives contact with reality.

The OOM Killer Took MySQL: Redis Object Caching for WordPress

Post category:Technical Guides Web Performance WordPress

MySQL was gone in the morning because the kernel picked it to reclaim memory from Redis. Redis ships configured as a durable datastore, and you are using it as a cache. Setup takes ten minutes; the gotchas are memory limits, shared namespaces and the one enormous key nobody mentions.