Membership site hosting and WordPress performance articles
Performance and concurrency writing from the team behind MemberHost.
14 articles
How to Move a Membership Site to a New Host Without Breaking Payments or Logins
Migrating a WordPress membership, course or community site is different from moving a blog. The payment webhooks, renewals, logins, email and course data to protect, with each plugin's own guidance and a checklist.
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PHP Workers Explained for Membership Sites, With a Sizing Calculator
What a PHP worker is, why logged-in members tend to keep more of them busy than blog readers, how to measure what your site needs, and a calculator that shows its working.
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Redis Object Cache for Membership Sites: When It Helps and When to Leave It Off
Should a membership site run Redis object caching? LearnDash, BuddyBoss and LifterLMS support it, MemberPress lists it as a problem. What each plugin's own docs say, and how to test it safely.
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Why Is BuddyBoss Slow? The Causes and the Fixes That Work
BuddyBoss slows down when a community outgrows its caching and hosting. The causes BuddyBoss documents itself, how to find yours with Query Monitor, and the fixes to try in order.
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MemberHost vs Cloudways (Flexible and Autonomous) for Membership Sites
Cloudways Flexible, Cloudways Autonomous and MemberHost compared for membership, course and community sites: infrastructure, scaling, support scope and what the uptime terms cover.
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MemberHost vs Kinsta for Membership and Course Sites
Looking at a Kinsta alternative for a MemberPress, LearnDash or BuddyBoss site? How Kinsta and MemberHost differ on PHP threads, object caching, plugin support and uptime terms.
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MemberHost vs Levamo for Membership and BuddyBoss Sites
Levamo (formerly Rapyd Cloud) and MemberHost both host logged-in WordPress sites. How they differ on infrastructure, support scope, caching and uptime terms, and who each suits.
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MemberHost vs Rocket.net for Membership and Course Sites
How Rocket.net's Managed and Enterprise plans compare with MemberHost for logged-in WordPress sites: edge caching, PHP workers, support scope and what the uptime guarantee covers.
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MemberHost vs SiteGround for Membership and Course Sites
Considering a SiteGround alternative for a membership or course site? SiteGround's shared and Cloud plans compared with MemberHost on resources, caching, support scope and uptime terms.
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MemberHost vs WP Engine for Membership, Course and Community Sites
Weighing a WP Engine alternative for a membership site? How WP Engine's Essential and Core plans compare with MemberHost on resources, logged-in caching, plugin support and uptime terms.
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LearnDash Hosting: What Actually Makes It Fast
Why page caching can't fix a slow LearnDash site: CPU speed, PHP workers, OPcache, and Redis, straight from the LearnDash webinar we co-hosted.
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Reliable WordPress Hosting for Membership Sites (2026)
An uptime percentage says nothing about launch day. What reliability means for a membership site, what hosting SLAs actually pay out, and how to prepare.
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The Fastest WordPress Hosting for Membership Sites (2026)
A 100/100 PageSpeed score can hide slow logged-in pages. What actually makes membership hosting fast once members log in and the page cache stops helping.
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Measuring WordPress Server Speed and Performance
How we measure WordPress backend speed on heavy membership and LMS sites: the tests, tools and numbers that matter more than a PageSpeed score.
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