If you aren’t scared of SSH and command lines, setting up Nginx is really not so complex. A simple Google search will provide you with the command lines that you need, including this helpful post, which takes you step-by-step through the process.

Some of my clients are not adept at using SSH and would prefer to use WHM/Cpanel to get the job done. While you can’t do everything from WHM/Cpanel, there is a very good plugin called Engintron which will get Nginx up and running as a reverse proxy for you very quickly.

Unfortunately, you still need to use SSH to initially install Engintron but once this step is completed, you can login into WHM/Cpanel to configure the plugin.

Before you follow the instructions below,  contact your host and ask them if they can install Engintron for you. If they can, you won’t have to bother with SSH at all. It’s probably worth a support request to find out.

If you need to install it yourself, login into SSH as Root and then type in the following command:

cd /; rm -f engintron.sh; wget --no-check-certificate
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/engintron/engintron/master/engintron.sh;
bash engintron.sh install

You will have to be patient as this process can take a few minutes to complete. You will see plenty of activity on your screen as the plugin installs.

That’s it! Now log into WHM and look for Engintron in the plugins section. The interface is terrific!

Do you need help installing Engintron? Contact me right now and I’ll be happy to help!

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The website contains more than 1400 products,hundreds of variations, and almost 100 categories. I ran some diagnostics  and discovered that the site is producing some very slow MySQL queries, some of which are as long as a short novel. The combination of products, variations, and categories is absolutely killing the website’s speed.

Choosing between WP Ecommerce or WooCommerce?

If you are trying to decide between WP Ecommerce or WooCommerce, please don’t give it a second thought. Go with WooCommerce. WooCommerce is far more robust than WP Ecommerce and able to handle a big catalog and plenty of variations.

Already installed Wp Ecommerce?

If you’ve already installed WP Ecommerce and you are experiencing slow load times, here are two suggestions to help speed the site up.

• Install the WT3 Total Cache Plugin. This plugin will cache your website pages and serve them faster to your customers. From my recent experience, I can tell you that this plugin works quite well with WP Ecommerce.
• Enable MYSQL query caching. This won’t solve all of your problems but you will definitely see a difference, especially since this problem seems to be directly related to slow queries. If you don’t have access to your server, you will have to ask your host to help you implement this.

Transfer from WP Ecommerce to Woocommerce?

There are plugins out there that will allow you to transfer your products from WP Ecommerce to Woocommerce but they are very expensive and will change your URL’s. This is very bad for SEO. I tried working with one of these plugins over the weekend and the results were not good. Unfortunately, you are most likely stuck with finding ways to speed up your existing store site.

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