Would a generic file sharing and hosting site work? If you place the file in a public Dropbox folder and reference it from your site? See the Web Applications Stack Exchange for more online file storage providers. Make sure you check the Cross-domain policy: if the Flash file hosted on dropbox.com needs to access data … Read more
Of course you can optimize your servers like the hosting companies do, it just depends on how much skill you have and how much effort you want to take on. Here’s a community wiki that might give you an idea of what to consider doing: Best-of-Breed Features of a High-End WordPress Web Host? One thing … Read more
You can expect to lose your site stats. You can expect your site to be harder to find. You can expect to have greater freedom in terms of customization and possible features. You can expect to have to upgrade your WordPress version periodically. You can expect less users commenting, as WordPress.com uses a social networking … Read more
According to your sites quantity and requirements, I will recommend you cloud hosting, as it is fully flexible you can upgrade it any time, Or you can go with VPS. For cloud rackspace is the best, and it has good uptime + Live Chat support(I have never used, but heard a lot good reviews about … Read more
Afaik there’s no real performance test available (what exactly do you want to check?), but you can find a plugin that came out of the first Q below, that might help you doing some profilling. An interesting read might be… refactoring WP to improve memory performance generally a lot of Qs inside the performance tag … Read more
You can try the manual transfer, first copy all your tables on your new database. Then you need to update the wp-config.php file in order for it to be able to connect. In case you have the rewriting enabled, you may also need to update the htaccess file (if the rewritebase is different, it’s not … Read more
If you are on any environment you did not personally set up, you may not have the permissions to override the php.ini file. Also some plugins can manually do: ini_set( ‘memory_limit’, ‘512M’);
You can create a local server with the installing linux and then you can add your project to that server so that all your team member which are connected with same network are can view the site. When you install Apache or IIS or any other web server application (in your case WAMP), your computer … Read more
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
Do you load own javascripts into the admin? If i recall correctly, if SCRIPT_DEBUG is set to true, the javascripts are not concenated, but loaded seperately. So if a custom javascript doesn’t play well being concenated, this can lead to the whole concenated javascript being corrupt and not being run correctly. Try removing the added … Read more