preparation list for migrated sites

1. turn off your caching plugins
   • we don’t support plugins that write to disk
   • we do however support anything that uses memcached, so we do support w3tc using memcached page cache
   • we don’t support object caching (they generally aren’t cluster aware).
   • database caching to memcached does work, but it doesn’t help the speed much
   • we find our servers are so fast, that you won’t require caching in most cases
2. turn off your CDN
   • in most cases a CDN is not required
   • we use memory caching, which is as good as a CDN, for Aussie websites, for Aussie customers.
   • we use cloudflare as  CDN – but there are some cloudflare short falls
3. we don’t support plugins that write to disk in production
   • we’ve seen some themes write css cache to disk
   • we’ve seen some plugins writing their own database to disk
   • writing to disk during wp-admin is OK
   • if your comfortable with command line, use this command to see if your wordpress is writing to disk
     • find ./ -mtime -1    (this asks linux, for any files written in the last day)
4. Turn off backup plugins
   • especially those writing to disk locally
   • you’ll see in cpanel that we keep a lot of backups for you
   • if your writing to dropbox or similar, that is OK
   • read more info on backups
5. Turn off your firewall plugins
   • our security is super tight you don’t need them
   • we use mod_security which is doing as good or better job than the plugin
   • we use a read-only WordPress system, so that hacks can’t be written to your site
   • you can leave the firewall plugins installed if you like

By Scott Farrell on February 25th, 2016 , Follow @scott_WordPress Tweet to @scott_WordPress