WordPress and PHP Workers

This article describes how WordPress, WooCommerce and other plugins use PHP Workers. PHP Workers is a concept in php-fpm that allows the web server to control how much resources can be spent at any given time, to process PHP requests. WordPress and WooCommerce process PHP requests at least once for […]

WordPress Plugins that Break Caching

Plugins that prevent caching limit the performance of your website, and reduce the scalability. It is also usually unnecessary, as there are techniques that can be applied to provide the same functionality, without preventing your pages from being cached. This article provides an overview of plugins in the WordPress repository […]

How to setup Drupal Cron Jobs

To improve performance in Drupal, we recommend disabling the built-in cron system in Drupal and run cron on the server side instead. This will offload the website and may cause significant improvements to the TTFB (Time to first Byte). You may still receive email messages regarding cron jobs if an […]

Development mode

You can set the site in Development mode in the site’s settings in the Servebolt Control Panel. The Development mode deactivates Servebolt’s built-in NGINX cache, allowing for instant updates when files are updated/changed on the origin. Development mode is automatically disabled for production sites (sites with domains added to the […]

Do you have VPS?

No, we do not run VPSes. The reason is that VPSes are slow by design. We care about performance, and are therefore running high performance shared hosting. Shared hosting is slow you say? Try us, running a Bolt will blow your mind. Sign up for a 100% free test and […]

How much RAM do you get?

We do not mention RAM in our pricing, and there is a good reason for it. It simply doesn’t matter, since we make sure there’s enough. Our servers are configured with a minimum of 64 GB of RAM, usually 128 GB RAM depending on the rest of the server configuration. […]

Servebolt Caching and Cache Policies Options

The setup of all sites on our servers involves two web servers. A front-end webserver (nginx) that handles SSL connections, load balancing and caching, and a back-end web server (Apache) that handles PageSpeed and runs your PHP application. The front-end web server (nginx) obeys the cache policies that are defined […]

How to manage disk space and disk usage

Many traditional hosting providers offer huge amounts of storage, with the likes of 100’s GB of data. This is a practice known as overselling, which is done in order to make the services seem better and larger than they actually are. At Servebolt we don’t oversell. Our storage solution is highly […]