Application optimization and configuration

These articles help you optimize and configure your installable application.

WordPress

Learn all about how to configure, optimize, and extend your WordPress installation. This collection of articles covers topics such as resetting the WordPress administrator password, adding CAPTCHA protection to a site, installing themes, and much more.

PrestaShop

These articles show you how to configure and optimize your PrestaShop installation, such as changing the PrestaShop URL settings, using GTMetrix to improve PrestaShop performance, and configuring product packs in PrestaShop.

Magento

These articles show you how to configure and optimize your Magento installation. This collection features articles on topics such as using Google Analytics with Magento, managing multiple stores in Magento, and enabling SSL for Magento.

Ghost

This collection of articles shows you how to configure and optimize your Ghost installation. Please note that Ghost is currently only supported on unmanaged hosting packages.

Elgg

This collection of articles shows how to configure and optimize your Elgg installation.

Drupal

These articles show you how to configure and optimize your Drupal installation. These articles cover a wide variety of topics concerning Drupal, such as Drupal troubleshooting, resetting the Drupal administrator password, and installing Drupal Console.

SugarCRM

This collection of articles shows you how to configure and optimize your SugarCRM installation.

Joomla

This collection of articles shows you how to configure and optimize your Joomla installation.

OpenCart

Learn how to configure and optimize your OpenCart installation with this collection of articles covering topics such as optimizing OpenCart, using Google Analytics with OpenCart, adding CAPTCHA protection to an OpenCart site, and more!

Optimizing web requests

This article describes the various stages of a web request, as well as optimization measures you can take at each step to help improve performance.

Measuring website performance using Pingdom

This article describes how to use and interpret the Pingdom web tool to measure and monitor a website’s performance.

Measuring website performance using YSlow

This article describes what YSlow is, how to use the YSlow browser extension to measure a website’s performance, and how to interpret the YSlow score results.

Measuring website performance using Google Chrome Developer Tools

This article describes how to use Google Chrome’s Developer Tools to measure and monitor a website’s performance.

Optimizing website performance

Learn how to help optimize your website’s performance by following the steps in this article. This article covers compression, browser caching, how to minify and combine Javascript & CSS files, how to optimize image files, and server caching.

Optimizing images

Image optimization can provide significant performance benefits for your web site. This article covers three different image optimization strategies: using your site’s CMS or web application, using an online service, and using a client application.

Optimizing your site with the Hostvento Optimized plugin

This article shows how you can quickly and easily optimize your web site using the Hostvento Optimized plugin.The Hostvento Optimized plugin works with WordPress, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, Joomla, and OpenCart.

Troubleshooting blank pages

Learn what to do when your site displays a blank page, also sometimes known as the “white screen of death.” This article walks you through troubleshooting by examining if there are any malfunctioning plugins, modules, extensions, and themes, what to look for with application debugging and logging modes, examining server log files, and examining error reporting and logging in PHP.

Importing large amounts of CSV data

Importing large amounts of CSV data into a web application all at once can cause problems. Learn how to safely import large amounts of CSV data in this article.

Using memcached on managed servers

If you have a managed VPS, managed Dedicated server, Turbo Boost Web Hosting account, Turbo Max Web Hosting account, or Turbo Reseller Hosting account, you can use Memcached to improve site performance. Learn how to configure Memcached for various account types here.

Moodle

This collection of articles covers how to configure and optimize your Moodle installation.

Branding Roundcube webmail

Learn how to brand Roundcube webmail to display your organization’s logo and name.

Configuring a shared address book in Roundcube webmail

Learn how to enable a shared (global) address book in the Roundcube webmail client. With a shared address book, you can share contacts across multiple e-mail accounts in your organization.

Using Redis on managed servers

If you have a managed VPS, managed Dedicated server, Turbo Boost Web Hosting account, Turbo Max Web Hosting account, or Turbo Reseller Hosting account, you can use Redis to improve site performance. This article provides the information you need to configure Redis for your application.

Enabling the Redis extension for PHP

This article describes how to enable the Redis extension for PHP on a shared hosting account.