Too Many Baubles: How Plugin Bloat Weighs Down Your Tree

Welcome to Day 22 of the MyWebHost Advent Calendar! 🎄 We are in the final countdown. The big day is almost here. We have built the workshop, tuned the engine, and filled the shelves with content, but there is one final trap that catches almost every website owner. It is the temptation of the "Install Now" button. Imagine your Christmas Tree. You put on a few lights. It looks lovely. Then you add some baubles. Very nice. Then you add tinsel. Then candy canes. Then a toy train. Then a […]

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Pre-Wrapping Gifts: The Magic of Server-Side Caching

Welcome to Day 10 of the MyWebHost Advent Calendar! 🎁 We are deep into Week 2: Speed. Behind Door #8, we gave your sleigh Rocket Fuel (NVMe Storage). Behind Door #9, we threw out the Lead Bricks (Image Optimisation). Today, we are going to fix the way the elves actually work. Imagine Santa’s Workshop on Christmas Eve. A child asks for a wooden toy train. The "Slow" Way: An elf runs to the back of the workshop, finds a block of wood, carves the train, paints it red, waits for it to […]

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