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How to migrate your website to Cloudways with the migration plugin

Welcome to the Cloudways website migration tutorial.You have followed our advice and switched your hosting to Cloudways? Awesome! Have you set up your new Cloudways server with the optimal settings for site speed? If not - here is a guide. Set up all the points mentioned above? Let's start the migration of your page to Cloudways. There two ways how you can migrate your website from your old hosting provider to Cloudways: Request a free migration from Cloudways! (The first migration …

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How to update the PHP version for faster page speed

Blogging for Beginners

Hello and welcome to another tutorial.This time we are going to talk about "How to update our PHP version for faster page speed". But before we get started... What is PHP? PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages on the web. In fact, 70% of all websites that use server-side programming use PHP. That’s 8 out of 10 sites. What PHP versions exist? When you update your PHP version to a 7+ version from a standard 5.4 or 5.6 version, it will automatically make your website …

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Set up your Cloudways server for optimal page speed

Blogging for Beginners

Hello and welcome to another tutorial.Today, I am going to show you how to set up your brand-new Cloudways server for optimal website speed. Why choose Cloudways as a hosting provider? Cloudways offers a fully managed cloud hosting that allows you to scale your hosting resources as you grow. They have a great infrastructure optimized for speed, performance, and security Like many before us, we went ahead and switched our hosting from HostGator to Cloudways after doing some extensive …

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How to set up Cloudflare CDN for fast page speed in 2020

Blogging for Beginners

Hello and welcome to another tutorial. In this article, I will give you an example of how to set up a Content Delivery Network, in this particular case - Cloudflare. 1. What is a Content Delivery Network? CDN providers have servers located around the world and enable them to cache resources (e.g. your website) throughout the world. This allows users who are requesting your page from another region than the originating one, to have a fast page load by being closer to an edge server of the …

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Why hosting is essential for fast page load time in 2020

Blogging for Beginners

Hello and welcome to another article - this time talking about hosting.We discussed why website speed is an important factor when it comes to having a successful blog. In case you missed that, make sure to read 5 beginner-friendly ways to improve your page speed in 2020. 1. EIG - HostGator, BlueHost, etc. Now that you're aware of how important site speed is, let's turn our attention to one of the main factors that influence it - hosting. NoteBe aware of hosting providers offered by EIG …

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Setting up Swift Performance for fast page speed in 2020

Blogging for Beginners

Hello and welcome to the Swift Performance caching plugin guide. Initially, the idea was to make it short & sweet but I guess if you implement all the recommended settings, things sometimes can get out of hand! Swift Performance is sort of the new powerhouse between the different caching plugins next to WP Rocket, WP Fastest Cache, WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, and other plugins. I talked about Swift Performance in my ("How to optimize your blog in 5 steps (for beginners)" before but …

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