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WordPress in itself is highly optimized for a rich user experience and the default Twenty-Twelve theme is quite lean for a fast user experience.But the things become complicated when you load your wordpress blog with contents, custom themes, a dozen plugins and media stuffs.

Things you should NOT do if you want your blog to load faster.

1. Don’t use older versions.Always upgrade to latest stable WordPress release.
2. Don’t use unnecessary Plugins & upgrade current ones.It’s like putting more weight on a powerlifter, it can take only so much of them and ultimately it may fail.Remove any plugins that you aren’t using. Deactivate them and physically delete them from your web server. Deactivated plugins will affect the speed of a site because the WordPress checks to see if they are activated or not. Also you must stay up to date with the latest versions of the plugins you are currently using. Developers release new versions because they’ve modified the code in some way to make the plugin work better.

Many of our users run WordPress either as a CMS or blog platform. With a lot of great plugins available, it’s easy to create a full-featured website with a lot of neat functionality. These plugins however, can insert additional CSS and JavaScript files into your header which can hurt your site’s performance (and Page Speed and YSlow scores).

Website speed can have a huge impact on visitor experience. If your webpages load slowly, visitors will leave or read fewer pages. More to the point, research shows that a 1 second decrease in page load speed can reduce your conversion rates by 7%.

Things you should do to improve the loading speed of your wordpress blog

1. Use A Quality and well built WordPress Theme

The WordPress theme you use can have an impact on speed. Themes differ dramatically in the amount of code they include, how well organized and executed the code is, the number and quantity of images they use, and other factors that affect load speed.

Look for themes that are relatively new or frequently updated, and themes by well-established WordPress developers. If you are open to spending a few bucks, consider investing in a premium theme, especially those build on prominent frameworks like Thesis, Genesis, or Hybrid.

2. Reduce The Number Of Plugins You Use to necessary ones.

It’s so easy to add WordPress plugins. That’s great. But means most of us end up with dozens of plugins installed on our sites, half of which we’re not really using. Yet, each of the active plugins add more code and scripts that slow down your site.

Your goal should be to keep it as light as possible. Go through your plugin list and deactivate and delete any plugins you are no longer using, and even those you are using but can get along without.

3. Regularly Delete Spam Comments And Post Revisions

Both spam comments and post revisions can accumulate at incredible rates. Once they do, they slow down database response times for your site.

For post revisions, install and run the Better Delete Revision plugin. This plugin will allow you to delete hundreds, possibly thousands of revisions across your website quickly and easily.

For spam comments, you can delete them manually, or if you have accumulated an unmanageable number of them, you can use a bulk delete plugin like Bulk Comment Remove.

Also, if you haven’t done it already, install Akismet !

4. How to automatically Reduce & OptimizeThe Size Of Your Images

This one is obvious, but oh-so-often overlooked. It’s surprisingly common for website owners to upload images from their hard drives as-is. They’re usually way larger than they need to be.

Before uploading images, optimize them for the web by resizing them to the smallest resolution you need – definitely less than 1000px in the longest dimension. You should also save them as compressed JPEGs at a medium quality level.

If you are a photographer or designer, or have a habit of writing round-up posts, you should also consider reducing the number images you load on any given page.

Finally, once images are uploaded, you can optimize them even further by using WordPress plugins like WP Smush.it.

5. Install A Caching Plugin

One of the biggest steps you can take to improve loading speeds is to install a solid caching plugin like W3 Total Cache (W3TC)

This plugin speeds up your site in a few ways. It loads saved ‘copies’ of pages on your site, including all their various elements, rather than running to the database to ask for needed page elements each time the page is loaded. It minifies code and files on your site for faster retrieval. And it helps browsers cache the right site elements locally on your visitors computers so they don’t have to be resent.

While there are a lot of ways you can tweak caching plugins, if you just install WP Total Cache and use default settings, you’ll already be well set.

6. How to Optimize Your WP Databases With The WP-Optimize Plugin

WP-Optimize and several other similar plugins allow you to easily clean up your databases. As you add content, posts, pages, images, plugins, new themes, and more to your WordPress site, all of these elements at content to your databases that hangs around even it’s no longer used.

This plugin will cleaning out unused and unneeded content. Above I mentioned reducing the number of plugins you use. This is the kind of plugin you can install and run periodically and then deactivate and remove.

7. Prevent Malicious Code injection With A Security Plugin

WordPress is notoriously susceptible to hacks and malicious code. In addition to creating a huge headache that needs to be cleaned up, malicious code can also cause dramatic speed and performance problems.

Fortunately, there are some great and simple security plugins out there like Bulletproof and WordFence that will protect your site as well as periodically scan it and let you know if any suspicious problems.

8. Add JavaScipts To The Footer instead of Header.

Most likely, you’ve added snippets of code for things like Google Analytics or possibly some advertising networks to your site. You can add this directly to your WordPress theme’s header or footer files files, but most WordPress themes now include an easy box for such scripts in their options panels.

If you have the choice, add these scripts to the footer area of your theme (just before the close of the body tag) rather than the header. Since these scripts aren’t needed to view the page content, placing them in the footer allows critical content to load before browsers execute the scripts.

9. Try JetPack’s Photon: A Free CDN Service from WordPress

Many articles on website speed mention using a CDN or content delivery network. In simple terms, a CDN is global array of servers that stores your information in various places, and then serves your website content from the server closest to your visitor. Because the server is geographically closer, it’s faster.

Great stuff. The main problem is that setting up and using a CDN generally requires advanced technical skills.

Enter Jetpack and Photon. Photon is relatively new feature of Jetpack that makes using CDN possible for the rest of us. With Photon enabled, your media files will be copied to the same server platform used by WordPress.com, and served to your visitors via WordPress.com’s CDN. Amazingly, they don’t even charge you for the storage or bandwidth you consume.

To get set up, you just need to install and enable the Jetpack plugin. By default, Jetpack comes with lots functionality. Be sure to go through and deactivate or disable any functionality you don’t specifically want. Then just enable Photon.

You will need to have an account with WordPress.com, but that’s also free. Otherwise, this is by far the simplest way to get on the CDN train.

10. Consider A More Advanced Hosting Solution

OK, this one is not so quick or simple, but it needs to be said. Most smaller websites are on shared hosting plans. And if you still have a smaller site, shared hosting is a great place to start. It’s both simple and inexpensive.

11.Test your site for page loading and caching related data.

Display page loading time + number of queries

Here is a simple code to insert on your template to know how long it took for your page to load, or how many sql queries were executed. This tip is very good for knowing how well is your WordPress blog is optimized.

<?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(1); ?>  seconds.

Get your page load score and improvement tips from GTMetrix.com and Pingdom

While free and hosted platforms like wordpress.com and blogger.com are easy and reliable, they do not provide ample options to experiment, expand and to really enjoy the full potential of blogging softwares.

So, today i am going to tell you about FIVE Reliable Virtual Private Server providers that can be used to host your blog (typically a WordPress installation as an example) for free !

I am NOT talking about those 3 days or one week trial offers on VPS where you have to move on even before you began to feel it !

Every VPS here is free, thus its for limited period of time, but its enough so that you may install your website and then relax to focus on blogging.

The idea here is to have a root access to the server and a dedicated ip address, so that you are able to install each and every part as you would like it to be.

1- Amazon Web Services

AWS is my favourite one.This is as simple and reliable cloud computing services can be.When you join AWS for the first time,you are eligible for their Free Tier lasting for 1 year.

Amazon Web Services offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps.

One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business.

AWS For Free – To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a free usage tier. The free tier can be used for anything you want to run in the cloud: launch new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or simply gain hands-on experience with AWS.

2- Microsoft Windows Azure.

Windows Azure is a Microsoft cloud computing platform for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. It provides both platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks.

Windows Azure 90 day free trial – Try it free

• Quickly build, deploy & manage applications.
• Use any operating system, language or tool.
• No obligation, totally free.

Although they provide many services, we are interested in two of them-

• Web sites – High density hosting of web sites. This feature was announced in preview form in June 2012 at the Meet Windows Azure event.Customers can create web sites in PHP, .NET, and Node.js, or select from several open source applications from a gallery to deploy. This comprises one aspect of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings for the Windows Azure Platform.
• Virtual machines – Announced in preview form at the Meet Windows Azure event in June 2012the Windows Azure Virtual Machines comprise the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering from Microsoft for their public cloud. Customers can create Virtual Machines, of which they have complete control, to run the Microsoft Data Centers. As of the preview the Virtual Machines supported Windows Server 2008 and 2012 RC operating systems and a few distributions of Linux.

3- Free Cloudlet Virtual Server by Nephoscale

This is pretty small but stable and reliable VPS that you can have for 1 Year, enough to host and run One website without any problem.

• One NephoScale cloud server supporting multiple SSH/SFTP logins and root access
• 256MB of total cloud server memory (RAM) available
• 750 hours per month cloud server usage
• 10GB of total cloud server disk space
• 50GB of inbound Internet transfer per month
• 50GB of outbound Internet transfer per month
• Out-of-band Clientless In-browser VNC Console Access with Reverse SSH
• Direct root access to underlying operating system to create/modify Cron jobs and define/modify Bootup Actions
• Support for all standard open source command line utilities, editors, version control tools, etc.
• Data Transfer In charges for usage above 50GB free allotment: FREE
• Data Transfer Out charges for usage above 50GB free allotment: $0.10/GB

4- A free VPS by Host1Free

This by far the only completely free VPS i know of. It is so because i am using one of theirs right now and it’s quite descent to host a blog.They provide a 128mb VPS with 10 gb space for liking them on facebook pages.

At last Free VPS is live! Currently, we invite all the new clients to get their Free VPS by invitation on Host1Free.com Facebook page! Become our fan and you will have a chance to get your Free VPS!

5- Free Cloud Hosting For One Year

uhurucloud is offering free cloud hosting to everyone. I just ported my websites to them and it was easy as anything.

If you have a wordpress site you should consider them. Once you port your site you will see that there hosting is way superior than others such as rackspace.

I suggest doing the following for wordpress based site:

If you have a way to clone your site to them use that or else just register for managewp and use their services to clone. Go to http://uhurucloud.com and register with voucher code FreeHosting. This will give you access to their cloud.

I will be writing a separate article on each one of them about the tutorials and basic walkthrough’s.Try them and share your responces.

Here is how to do it.

1.First of all, go to list of blogs in your WordPress Dashboard

2.Click on Blog Admin link below the name of blog that you want to delete.This takes you to mentioned blog’s dashboard.

3.Find the Tools section

4.Click on Delete Blog

5.Follow The instructions (choose the one you desire from dropdown list)

6.Confirm the email which you get at your registered mail address.

7.Your blog is Deleted.

The world has changed so much in past ten years(and the blogger is still there). Now,the people have so much more flexibility. Instead of having a shared hosting (and thousands of them on the same server) you can have a Virtual Private Server (VPS) of your own , at nearly same cost as of a shared hosting.

As an example, i used to have a shared hosting account with bluehost a couple of years ago that cost me almost $5/month ($50/Year , 2 months free) and now i have a VPS (2 GB RAM,50 GB space and 1000 GB Bandwidth)with End Of Reality for $15/quarter.

VPS hosting is certainly the new trend out there and thus many new as well as established companies out there are luring the customers with free and low cost trial offers. I have already made a post regarding some free VPS providers.These are certainly limited in number and come less often.

Then there are trial offers on vps.These may cost you something like $1 for 1 month of service,but the beauty is that you get to try any of their plans and decide the one that suits you best.Hey you can even try their best VPS ($ 100-500 value) just for $1

Here are some $1/month VPS trial Offers-

• Hub Org FreeBSD VPS - Any VPS Plan $1/Month – First Month
• NameCheap VPS – Any Plan $1/Month
• Site5 VPS – Any VPS $1/month – free vps

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Their blog on Feb 4th reads-

Today marks WebFaction’s tenth birthday: ten years of hosting, ten years of support, and ten years of working to provide a service that we can be proud of. Ten years ago WebFaction opened its metaphorical doors to the world, and though a lot has changed since then, including our name, we hope to be doing for another ten years what we’ve always done: our best for our customers.

However OLD and GOOD their service may be, they tend to keep themselves limited, unlike giants of hosting industry. Not aggressive on the part of advertising and show off, they believe in quality and making relationship with their customers.The same is evident via a great deal of respect in their customer reviews.

So, on this moment , you have an opportunity to be a part of their esteemed family.Here is how-

To celebrate this milestone, we’re giving away $100,000 in hosting services to new and existing customers.New customers: just sign up from tomorrow Feb 5th at 2pm UTC and pay $9.50 for the first month (or pay for longer). $100 will automatically be credited to your account.

Existing customers:add one new service to your account from tomorrow Feb 5th at 2pm UTC (a 256 MB plan, 256 MB extra memory, or a 1GB plan) and pay for one month of that service, and you will receive the next three months of that service for free.

So, if you are looking to buy a stable (10 years ! no question to ask ) and reliable host, here is an easy and affordable way to get it. Pay for 1 and get 10 months free.

Try it folks and let me know how you feel.

We, in association with Site5 , are now able to provide the introductory level of VPS just for 1$ (upto $90 in value) for the first month.Try it as much as you like, no obligations at all & do remember to cancel it before 2nd month.

Here is what you get for $1- (use coupon ONEDOLLARVPS1 )

We have now finished incorporating Incapsula across our cPanel servers. Incapsula can be thought of as a CloudFlare alternative, the free account tier offers  50GB/m of CDN and website optimization as well as statistics and threat mitigation.

Incapsula can be found in the cPanel interface, however please note that if you are using CloudFlare you should not Activate Incapsula – Use either one or the other.

To use Incapsula simply click on the in cPanel and enter your email address. You can then activate your domains you wish to use.

If you have any issues regarding Incapsula please dont hesitate to contact support.

Enjoy.

PS. Learn more about incapsula and its features

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This change applies to all the existing clients too. When you go to cpanel login page , you will have an option to choose new cPanel or the old vPanel.  The choice is yours.

I hope that you will like this new year change. We are determined to make many more improvements in coming months , so wait and watch.

Thank You to all the clients.