I monitor a few websites with pingdom, one of the sites I monitor is not mine but I monitor out of curiosity is a amazon hosted site. In the past 6 months it has had 3 hours of downtime and 2 hour of that is in one chunk, apart from the it just went off … Read more
Here are some popular companies that provide managed WordPress hosting, from highest to lowest price (starting packages): WPEngine (starting at $29/month) Synthesis (starting at $27/month, for Genesis Framework users only) ZippyKid (starting at $25/month) Page.ly (starting at $19.95/month) It is worth choosing a host who specialises in WordPress, in my opinion, especially if you like … Read more
Really good question, I have not actually tested this out yet, however in the past, with the way Python and even Java work, they were able to really deliver superior performance because they able to split the application’s processing and memory needs across their cluster. This came with some limitations of not being able to … Read more
I think we also need a few more features: Minifying JS, CSS and the HTML that is being sent down the wire. Caching the op-code of the PHP that will be generated (apart from Memcached). Upload the JS, CSS and Images that are used in the theme and/or plugin to a CDN and sync automatically. … Read more