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   by ryandonsullivan 10y ago

   Thanks for sharing. The work our team put into this was pretty fantastic. Lots of real user tests and a number of real solid takeaways. Name, WordPress might be easier to use than Wix and Squarespace both
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   by ryandonsullivan 10y ago

   Yeah, no doubt that a sketchy IP will basically negate any kind of authentication you have in place. Off to read your article...
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   by ryandonsullivan 10y ago

   Cool tool. I'll have to play around with that and see how it goes. May end up adding it to the article :)
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   by ryandonsullivan 10y ago

   That's a totally fair point. I'm not entirely sure why most third parties are still using ~ in their documentation but it still seems to be the norm. I do like the definitive nature of -all.
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   by ryandonsullivan 10y ago

   Thanks for posting this. I know it's on a WordPress site but definitely applies to way more people than just that audience. I hope to build the article out even more and get super specific with various vendors like Mandrill, Amazon SES
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   How Negative SEO Hit My Company Right Where It Hurts, the Bottom Line(ryandsullivan.com)

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   by ryandonsullivan 13y ago

   That's definitely fair feedback. One thing to keep in mind is, that with an outlier of 4 minutes and change, the graph would have to be blown up to a massive scale in order to see any variation in response times from the other hosts. O
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   by ryandonsullivan 13y ago

   Hi Sean, it surprised me enough that I ran the test multiple times and came up with the same result over and over. I connected with Ben over the weekend and would love to talk with you guys some more!
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   by ryandonsullivan 13y ago

   Another thing to look at is using nginx as a web server. It's a lot more lightweight than Apache. Paired with a solid SSD drive and varnish caching, and you can get some really great performance out of WordPress.
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    by ryandonsullivan 13y ago

    Yep. These are all great points. This is the first set of many many tests to come but it was good to get a baseline. If you check the timestamps of the full tests, you'll see that all of them were run back to back to back within the co
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    by ryandonsullivan 13y ago

    For this particular article I didn't record any uptime. It's definitely a metric worth measuring, but I wanted to get super specific with this test. Lots more testing to come :)