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From hosting my first website on a popular shared hosting (yes, I know) through winning 1st place in a worldwide WordPress Performance Contest in 2019 to launching the most comprehensive course on “How to improve page speed”, this is my journey in the web-page speed optimization niche.
Table of content:
- About me and how I got to this niche
- My bad experience with a few hosting companies
- My first hosting comparison
- Winning 1st place in the WordPress Performance Contest 2019
- My course on “How to improve page speed”
About Me and How I Got into This Niche
My name is Shay Toder, and I’m a Website Speed Optimization Expert.
Since 2006 I have been a SQL DBA (Database Administrator), and the thing I love most is taking a process that typically requires 30 hours and improving it to 3 minutes, or taking a 60-second query and improving it to 0.1 seconds.
So, when I wanted to start an online business, it was only natural for me to merge my passion for improving website performance and processes, and about two years ago, I launched my blog in this niche.
My Poor Experience With Previous Hosting Companies
At that time, I already had a website hosted, a hosting company recommended by many eager affiliates.
From the get-go, this notorious hosting was noticeably slow!
I kept searching for better hosting and kept reading reviews. Then I decided to move my site to another recommended hosting provider by the WordPress official, but I wasn’t pleased with two things: first, the speed was still not adequate for me, and second—their staging server didn’t support gzip compression. These turned out to be a disadvantage for me because I wanted to do speed tests on that server, and it distorted my testing results.
My First Hosting Comparison
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This article was written by Mustaasam Saleem and originally published on The Official Cloudways Blog.