Yoast: A reader story: One Project Closer
I got an email from Fred of One Project Closer this weekend, outlining how he had handled improving the load time of his blog, and I was so happy with it that I asked whether I could post it online, to which he graciously agreed. So you can now read it in full:
Joost,
I wanted to pass along a HUGE thank you for pointing me in the direction of VPS.Net.
About 2 weeks ago we decided it was time to move off of our Dreamhost shared hosting. I had remembered visiting your site several months back and seeing your note in the sidebar for a fast WordPress hosting solution. When we decided to move 2 weeks ago, I sought out your site again.
In a matter of two weeks we have:
1) switched to VPS.Net
2) optimized with Litespeed
3) installed W3 Total Cache
4) signed up for Akamai and started delivering via CDN.
5) started to optimize our code every way we can.Our home page load times are down to less than 4 seconds from 10-11 seconds on Dreamhost. We saw an INSTANT increase in our affiliate conversions on some pages which will make the VPS.Net solution pay for itself in no time…
I’m now on a mission to optimize the heck out of the rest of our code — moving more to the CDN and figuring out how to keep our rich presentation but streamlining the delivery.
Your site speed is an inspiration. I’m looking forward to figuring out ways to squeeze every last drop of waste out of our loads.
I hope to get to meet you sometime and share our story.
Thanks,
Fred
It’s great to see how people improve their sites just by taking my freely given advice. He’s also very right about affiliate money paying for the somewhat more expensive hosting fees. I’ll tell you this time and again: you get what you pay for… If you’ve got a story like this to tell, please do share it with me! Either through my contact form or through the comments below!
A reader story: One Project Closer is a post from Joost de Valk‘s Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
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