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November 2026 hosting guides
Practical steps and checks for hosting, WordPress and performance. Browse a topic or use the dates to explore the experience behind the advice.
12 guides, newest work first.
Splitting work across uneven machines: claims, big chunks first, and a duplicate tail
Distributing browser renders across uneven machines: current claims, strict chunk IDs, largest-first scheduling and a duplicated tail.
Show hosting cost per site next to usage
AceHost shows each reseller site's usage beside an indicative hosting cost share and its plan, with charity hosting counted as donations.
What preparing my plugins for WordPress.org review changed
Preparing my plugins for WordPress.org review changed how they handle protected content, permissions, uploads and outside services.
One WordPress command centre that every plugin reports to
A WordPress command centre where every plugin contributes one card, and every card says where its figures came from and when they were true.
Managing a news aggregator's sources without slowing the site down
A publisher directory that took 174 MB, a cache stampede, adding outlets with a way back and retiring stale stories without deleting them.
Turning live sports data into pages people and search engines can use
Odds, a multi-source sports calendar, a map and racing results as server-rendered pages with ages on every value, one address per view and one canonical tag.
Give every Redis key a lifetime, even when the code asks for a week
Ace Redis Cache now caps every object cache lifetime so cold keys stop crowding shared Redis, and why values over 64 KB were never being stored.
Cron locks stop overlapping runs. Make sure they do not hide skipped ones
Per-site flock locks stop scheduled WordPress runs stacking up. Why I removed a shared lock, and how a background lease skipped thousands of runs unnoticed.
Cache the page, not the reader: a Redis page cache on a busy news site
Nothing per-reader in cached HTML, time windows in cache keys, and a newsroom-aware most popular list that stays live inside a cached page.
Audit the tipping record before anyone sees the headline number
A tipping record's profit figure looked good. A settlement audit found tips matched to the wrong race. What went wrong, and why waiting is an honest state.
Audit a WordPress network before every deploy, and after
A read-only WordPress multisite audit before and after each deploy: what it checks, what its first run found, and the two checks that were wrong.
A development site that never calls the outside APIs itself
A development site reads only what production has cached, through a restricted SSH tunnel, so testing never spends quota or gets the server blocked.
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