Guides from the NOC

Skip the extra Varnish daemon. Set up Nginx's built-in FastCGI cache to speed up PHP-FPM sites on your VPS, with safe rules for logged-in users and carts.

A bloated wp_options table with too much autoloaded data slows every WordPress page load. Here's how to find the worst offenders and clean it up safely.

Learn how to load test your VPS with ab, wrk, and k6 before a launch or sale, and fix the PHP-FPM, MySQL, and Nginx limits that cause it to fall over.

WooCommerce site crawling to a halt? A bloated Action Scheduler queue is often the hidden cause. Learn how to diagnose, clear, and prevent it for good.

Confused between a VPS and a dedicated server? Compare cost, performance, control, and scaling so you pick the right hosting for your traffic and budget.

Site crawling or throwing 502s under traffic? Learn how to calculate pm.max_children and pick dynamic vs ondemand vs static PHP-FPM on your VPS.

Slow WordPress or app on your VPS even with low CPU? Tune innodb_buffer_pool_size, max_connections, and tmp_table_size in my.cnf the right way.

Install and configure Varnish Cache on your VPS to serve pages in milliseconds. Step-by-step setup for Apache or Nginx backends, plus fixes for common issues.

Load average high but CPU sitting idle on your VPS? Learn how to confirm I/O wait with vmstat, find the blocked process, and fix the disk bottleneck.

Site throwing Cloudflare error 524 'A timeout occurred'? Learn why the origin is too slow to respond and how to fix wp-cron, slow queries, and hung APIs.

Site feels sluggish but CPU looks fine? Learn how to enable the MySQL slow query log, read it with mysqldumpslow, and fix the queries actually slowing you down.

admin-ajax.php spiking your server's CPU every 15-60 seconds? Learn what the WordPress Heartbeat API does and how to safely throttle or disable it.

Step-by-step guide to adding Cloudflare CDN in front of your Getwebup hosting - correct DNS records, SSL mode, and mistakes to avoid.

WordPress slow for logged-in users despite page caching? Set up Redis object cache on your VPS the right way, and fix the common connection issues.

VPS running slow or unresponsive? Learn how to find the process eating your CPU - PHP-FPM, MySQL, cron, or a bad bot - and fix it for good.

Slow WordPress site on cPanel hosting? Find the real causes - bloated plugins, no caching, unoptimized images - and fix them with this practical checklist.