When you upload an image, WordPress generates multiple images for each image size, e.g. medium, thumbnail, large etc If you have a lot of custom image sizes you could cut down, but uploading 1 million images is going to take a lot of cpu, even without the resizing. On top of that, each upload generates … Read more
Obviously this question is a little squishy, as YMMV, but I’ve run several WP sites using W3TC and similar plugins to yours on 32M, and haven’t had an issue. That being said, when are you typically running into issues? Is it on post submission? On gallery operations? Looking for a pattern there could be helpful. … Read more
Caching full pages is not going to do you any good for a situation like you described. Users will update things and expect to see their updates right away — meaning you spend more server time invalidating cached pages. The database server is likely to be your biggest bottleneck in just about any webapp. Two … Read more
Nope, that is not the issue with your website, according to the WooCommerce FAQ: What is the maximum WooCommerce can handle? Sky is the limit. We’ve seen instances of shops with 100,000+ products listed, handling thousands of transactions per minute. In those cases, they had great hosting support and their own developer team focused on … Read more
You shouldn’t be blindly changing configs in my.cnf. Use rackerhacker/MySQLTuner-perl · GitHub to test and check your my.cnf configs. It will give suggestions for memory allocations and all other aspects of MySQL tuning. You also should configure httpd.conf for high loads. See Apache Performance Tuning – Apache HTTP Server
Custom Post Types are more convinient and easy to implement, so I suggest you use them. Also the Posts will be ready to make a blog section in the future. About optimizing. Use some caching plugin, there are lots of them in WordPress Plugin Directory. Turn off the revisions to save database size: add define … Read more
The site is not loading at the moment and returning a 504 Gateway Time-out error. Regarding the parallax-slider.less (or parallax-slider.css) file, it is most likely added by a plugin to the page. Even though you do not have the plugin content (in this case, a slider) on the page, some files from this plugin may … Read more
You should search your theme files for calls to wp_enqueue_style(), I bet that is what’s adding an extra link to style.css.
before copy/pasting the database from your local machine to the production server, you should do a Find & Replace on the domain name. this way you replace localhost:40952 with the correct domain on every url in the database. or read the part ‘Moving WordPress to a New Server’ on the codex.
Custom table(s). WordPress posts are not structurally a fit for what you are doing. Trying to use them for this will result in a lot of unnecessary data processing and storage. But you need to think through your own database design and you need to be good with SQL or you will end up inefficient … Read more