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Are you getting the most out of your WordPress website?<\/strong><\/p>\n

WordPress is one of the most popular web applications in the world and powers nearly 80% of all websites hosted on our servers.<\/p>\n

We love WordPress and its explosive growth has changed how we think about hosting and made us strive to create a platform that greatly improves both its performance and security.<\/p>\n

Last year we launched our next generation platform and optimized WordPress hosting plans<\/a>, where we pre-install WordPress for new customers and configure it for peak performance and security, but did you know that all Varial Hosting customers can benefit from our powerful new features?<\/p>\n

How to\u00a0make your WordPress website faster:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regardless of what hosting plan you are subscribed to, all Varial Hosting customers can greatly improve the speed of their WordPress websites by installing this simple plugin<\/a>, which will enable our server side cache.<\/p>\n

When a visitor accesses your website, normally WordPress will use PHP and MySQL to build your site on each and every page they visit. This uses a lot of server resources and will often take a second or two to display depending on the complexity of your website.<\/p>\n

When caching is enabled, WordPress will only use PHP and MySQL to build your website the first time a page is requested. Afterwards our server will save and deliver a prebuilt version of that page, which takes only fractions of a second to load. By enabling server side caching you can make your WordPress website load hundreds, if not thousands of times faster!<\/p>\n

As our caching feature is built directly into our web server, it will also outperform other popular WordPress caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache which still rely on PHP to function.<\/p>\n

Want to speed up your website but not sure where to begin? Simply contact our Support department<\/a> and we’ll install this plugin for you free of charge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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