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Benchmarking results Wordpress Drupal

Managed WordPress as a Service benchmarking results

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Following our recent announcement of the WordPress as a Service offering, we benchmarked the Free WordPress as a Service plan and now publish the results. WordPress as a Service – Introduction WordPress as a Service plans offer the variety of server resource allocation, such as CPU, RAM, cloud web space. The introduced four plans are: Free WordPress Silver WordPress Gold WordPress Platinum WordPress Every account runs a single WordPress website in a container isolated environment, which implies the server resource cap. For example, the Free WordPress comes with 1ECU and 512MB or RAM. The top-range Platinum WordPress comes with 20ECU […]

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Smallpt and Apache tests from Phoronix Test Suite

High Performance Cloud VPS benchmarks by Phoronix Test Suite

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In February this year, we upgraded our cloud servers to the latest Intel Xeon E5-2687W CPU with DDR4 RAM. Following the upgrade, we decided to benchmark the performance of our new Cloud VPS platform and compare it to DigitalOcean and AWS. The server type/size used: RedyHost: Cloud 2 VPS, featuring 2CPUs and 2GB RAM, cost: A$26/mo US$19.68 DigitalOcean: droplet featuring 2CPUs and 2GB RAM, cost: US$20/mo AWS: m3.large instance, featuring 2CPUs and 7.5GB of RAM, cost: US$135/mo In all 3 clouds, all 3 servers run default Ubuntu 14.04 x64 bit template. All 3 servers used apt-get to install the Phoronix test suite. Need a Cloud […]

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How we speed up customer website

How we speed up customer website 10x times without changing it

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Recently we optimised a Managed Secure hosting customer website tilkah.com.au and reduced page loading times from over 40 seconds per page down to under 4 seconds per page. It is important to note that the whole optimisation work was on the web server end, without changing the application itself. Tilkah is an Australia wide retailer for high quality luxe leather and jewellery pieces. The online store tilkah.com.au is built in WordPress and has several hundreds of products sold online. The challenge we faced was to deal with the lack of content optimisation on the front-end. The website was lacking CSS/JS files optimisation and compression, […]

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WordPress xmlrpc wp.getUsersBlogs attack

WordPress xmlrpc wp.getUsersBlogs attack

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Recently we began monitoring increasing number of WordPress xmlrpc attacks, where a large number of passwords is submitted for user “admin” via xmlrpc.php file. Our security system blocks such attempts for all Managed Hosting clients or cPanel with Account Shield protectio, so they do not even hit WordPress websites. However, WordPress websites running elsewhere may be vulnerable. Below we publish one of the lists of passwords submitted as XML POST request, make sure your “admin” user password is not one of those. The XML file submitted typically consists of around 1000 passwords, making usual brute force attack a more efficient […]

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