Hosting & Performance

Fast and secure hosting is the basis for a high-performance WordPress website. In this category, you’ll find the best tips on hosting providers, server optimisation and performance tweaks to keep your website stable and fast at all times. Find out which hosting types are suitable for different projects, how to optimise the loading time with caching and CDN and which security measures protect your website from attacks.

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Joachim Mahr • 30. July 2025

10 serious WordPress maintenance errors – and how to avoid them

Avoid these WordPress maintenance mistakes: Joachim explains how you can ensure greater security and stability with practical tips.

Torben Simon Meier • 5. January 2024

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Jan Hornung

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28. October 2021

The grading dilemma: a typical problem when comparing performance

We show why many users measure their page load time incorrectly and what you need to do and know to get it right.
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Jan Hornung

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23. October 2020

The 5 biggest WordPress speed killers

Top hardware, top hosting and yet WordPress is still slow? You should know these 5 WordPress speed killers for optimisation!
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Matthias Held

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3. September 2020

What is a content delivery network (CDN)? And when does it really make sense?

A CDN can improve your website's loading time, uptime and security. Nevertheless, a content delivery network is not always useful.
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Joshua Schofield

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29. July 2020

PageSpeed Insights & the importance of website speed

Slow websites can slow down your ranking. Learn more about Google PageSpeed Insights and how to use it to identify problems.
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Torben Simon Meier

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12. June 2020

Optimise WordPress with the 10 most important adjusting screws

Our insights from hosting thousands of WordPress projects: You can optimise your WordPress with little effort – if you know how!
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Jan Hornung

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3. March 2020

Optimise WordPress: How to analyse your website in 7 seconds

There's more to optimising WordPress performance than PageSpeed Insights. Find out more about hidden load time brakes here.
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Nils Cartsburg

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19. February 2020

Instructions: Convert WordPress multilingual to WPML Multidomain

Do you need WordPress multilingual? Multidomain is the best option for your SEO. Instructions for WPML Multidomain with WordPress and WooCommerce.
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Tobias Schüring

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25. January 2018

Why Google’s “Brotli” compression algorithm is a real gzip alternative

The Brotli compression standard from Google outperforms previous techniques such as gzip. We show you how Brotli makes your WordPress faster.
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Jan Hornung

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10. August 2017

Testing Google Test My Site: How good is the new performance tool?

Google Test My Site checks the loading speed of mobile sites. But is this even worthwhile for webmasters? Here we show what TMT can do.
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Tobias Schüring

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27. September 2016

Five months of Let’s Encrypt: This is where the Certification Authority from California stands today

Five months after leaving beta, the US certification authority Let's Encrypt has issued almost eleven million certificates.
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