A checkout page went white for some customers and the PHP error log only said what broke, not why. Here’s the case for dedicated error monitoring that captures the full application state at the moment of the crash.
I got an email from a long-term client. “Ahmad, the site is painfully slow. Ever since that last plugin update, it’s been a nightmare.” My…
A WooCommerce shop was timing out because a pre_get_posts hook ran a tax query on every request site-wide. Scoping it to the main shop query with is_main_query, is_admin, and is_shop cut page loads from 20 seconds to under 2.
A client’s WooCommerce site crashed under Black Friday traffic. A serverless AWS stack fixes that scaling problem at the foundation instead of throwing a bigger server at it.
Got a call from a client. Total panic. They’d just finished a flash sale for their WooCommerce store, and the star of the show, a…
Had a client call me in a full-blown panic. Their WooCommerce site went down. On Black Friday. They’d just launched a massive sale, got a…
A client’s WooCommerce store kept crashing every Black Friday on a pricey managed server. Serverless hosting runs each request on its own short-lived instance, so a traffic surge scales instead of hitting a single box’s limits.
I got a call about a high-traffic WooCommerce shop, maybe 30,000 products, and their admin dashboard was timing out. Total mess. The site owner couldn’t…
Notes from fixing a client’s slow store: how caching full pages at the CDN edge cuts origin load, when to bypass the cache, and how to avoid serving stale content.
I got a call last month from a client running a fairly successful WooCommerce store. Everything was custom, looked great on paper, but their Google…