WordPress Optimization Tool: DB Manager

Part of the process for optimizing your WordPress account is by checking all your database queries, determining the frequency at which they are called, and whether your database server is getting called too often. But it is not easy to do this unless you have a tool that will provide you this information. One such [...]

Upgrading your WordPress installation manually

This topic is not for people who have blogs on WordPress.com; blogs over there are always on an updated version of the WordPress platform. This is for people who have WordPress Blogs hosted on a server elsewhere. When logging into the Admin mode of your WordPress Blog, you get a Dashboard that displays the version [...]

Paid Hosting: Shared vs. dedicated servers

A majority of the people who go in for setting up their own hosting accounts go in for shared hosting, where there are a large number of people sharing the same server (typically on a Linux machine). Shared / virtual hosting packages are the default web hosting accounts for beginners and intermediate web site owners [...]