I’ve been upgrading Wordpress for almost 4 years now and since I manage about 20 blogs, I have learned to figure out how to upgrade your Wordpress faster than ever using SSH and wget command. For one, you will need a dedicated server/VPS that supports SSH.  Otherwise you won’t be able t ...

In this blog post, I will show you how to convert a Wordpress blog to run Lighttpd instead of the default Apache Httpd server (on a Plesk server specifically). You can probably apply most of these instructions to any other web servers running on raw Apache but if you are that good at managing web s ...

This is a Wordpress permance test using Lighttpd (which is a faster alternative to Apache) and Apache Httpd on a test server loaded with a real blog.  All tests were done from empty load of zero. For testing, I’ve used a virtual dedicated server from MediaTemple, specifically their dv Extreme ...