how to speed up wordpress - part 2 - hosting

In this part 2 of our How to speed up WordPress guide we're going to take dive into the world of WordPress hosting and guide you to my tried and tested way of finding the right host that best meets your needs..   Let's get straight to point. The one thing, above all the other thousands of little things that you can do to speed up your WordPress website, is to pick the right host.   perhaps to start business or blog, your requirements going to be much different from mature  WooCommerce shop with 30 plugins, processing 300 orders day and hundreds of thousands of unique visitors day.   Figuring out the complexion of your website traffic, the query load of the plugins you need to run your website and how cacheable your website is are all huge factors in determining the right kind of web host for your website..   Siteground have taken the best of these excellent pieces of software and packaged them into product they call Supercacher and made it accessible to their mainstream shared hosting customers.   Siteground Supercacher Supercacher is layer of caching that sits in front of your WordPress website.   It's layer of caching lives outside of WordPress when Supercacher is configured, your webpages will be served from Supercache cache layer directly WordPress never has to load.   Far too many people in and start updating WordPress plugins and themes without ever backing up their website and then realize that some plugin they rely on for their business has introduced some breaking change that brings their business to halt.   HTTP 2 and Lets Encrypt support While Siteground are not unique in that they support Lets Encrypt, they were one of the first to do so, and their simple one click implementation means there is no reason why your website does not run on https.   We see ton of misinformation on this topic and having solid understanding of how to measure the speed and performance of your website will help us to then measure how effective our optimization tweaks are in later parts of this guide..   Read more