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How to Scale Up Your LearnDash Infrastructure

LearnDash

We’ve written in the past about popular hosting options for WordPress , so we’ll just start by saying that if you’re still in the “budget” realm, which is to say you’re running off a shared server, it’s time to upgrade. However, when making your choice, be sure to look at the server specifications. Virtual Private Server (VPS).

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Worried About Course Security? Start With Your Website.

LearnDash

When you consider your hosting options, there are three main services available: shared hosting, a virtual private server (VPS), and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting means that your website is on the same server as several others. A spike in traffic to one of the other websites on your server may slow your site down.

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Coronavirus Update

CourseArc

Due to the anticipated increase in online learning and remote instruction learning, we will be dedicating more resources to ensure that our servers and databases are performing optimally. We also want to encourage you to consider asynchronous learning as opposed to synchronous learning which is much more taxing on our servers.

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8 Things To Look For When Hiring Your Next eLearning Outsourcing Provider

Infopro Learning

For example, they back everything up on the cloud or an encrypted server. You should also leave room for unforeseen issues, such as interactive online training content that takes longer than expected, or glitches that slow down the eLearning development process. Do your top candidates meet all of these requirements?

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7 Ways to Improve the Site Speed for Your Online Course

LearnDash

An HTTP request is any time your browser has to fetch a file from your web server. However, we don’t recommend them for LearnDash, as they will sometimes try to combine our already compressed files, which can lead to issues. The farther your servers are from someone trying to access them, the more latency there will be.

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Creating Engaging Courses for Professional Training

Academy of Mine

Sometimes this can be a funding issue, but also, public schools are non-profits so they aren’t focused on selling courses as a source of income like businesses. Our system is cloud-based, so we host everything on our scalable servers. There’s a big difference between academic eLearning and training courses for SMBs and corporations.

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Best Video Hosting Solutions for Online Courses

LearnDash

Fortunately, a video host can help address this issue by providing storage for your videos among other benefits. So when you upload them to your server, they’re likely to take up huge amounts of space, slow your site down , and cause lots of errors for users. Let’s stake a deeper dive. Why do you need to use a video host?

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