dynambee

Definitely, different hosts work better for different people. Low cost hosts that offer "unlimited traffic" always concern me due to past low performance experiences. If things are working well for you with this host then that's great news for sure. Back on topic though, as posted elsewhere it is possible just turn Redis on in the Cloudways control panel and no additional settings in TB are required. Edit: Caching must be turned on in the TB back office (Advanced Parameters --> Performance), saved, and then Redis selected as the cache type, and then saved again. Any information on the various TB back end settings for caching and performance would be most appreciated. Is there any way to use a subdomain on cloudways to serve cookieless static content?

It really depends what you want from a host. For example, I have a 1Core/2GB/40GB/2TB plan on Cloudways, based on a VULTR server, and it costs $23/month. If I went directly with VULTR the same plan is $10 a month. So what does Cloudways provide for that $13 a month? They provide management infrastructure on top of the bare VULTR (or other cloud provider) platform. If you go with something like VULTR directly you, the user, have to configure and manage everything yourself. Want a database? How about Elasticsearch? Redis? You get to install, configure, and manage those features yourself. Want to host 5 different stores and a development platform on a single server? You get to configure that and set it up. Want a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, or even better, one for each of your stores which each have several domains/sub domains? You get to set that up and manage it too. For some people that is fine, for others it is desired or even required. For a lot of people though that's a royal PITA and will lead to a huge mess in short order. Personally I could set that stuff up myself if I had to, and I could learn how to do the parts that I don't already know how to do. Unfortunately I have limited hours in each day and I'm quite busy with other projects. Paying $13/month to have someone else take care of that is a good deal for me at the current time. Another reason I like Cloudways though is that they do work directly on top of VULTR, and for what I am doing I want to have different servers in different parts of the world. Site focused on Australian customers? Hosted in VULTR's Sydney datacenter. Site focused on UK customers? Set up in London. Likewise for other countries. So while it is certainly possible to find cheaper hosts than Cloudways they do provide good value to many people.

So it looks like ThirtyBees works well on Cloudways, and the performance I've seen so far is excellent. I'm wondering if anyone here is actively using TB on CW yet, and if there are any configuration tips to share? What options should be enabled (or disabled) within TB for the best performance? Any cache tips or pitfalls to avoid? CW offers Redis and it's easy to turn on, but does anything need to be set up within TB itself to take advantage of Redis? Currently I am using PHP 7.0 and MySQL 5.6. Would there be an advantage to migrating to MariaDB 10? Any problems with using PHP 7.0? I'll be happy to share any issues & tips I face with Cloudways and/or Cloudflare with TB and would be most appreciative of any thoughts from others!

Is the current TB API the same as the PS 1.6.x API? Any plans to change or improve it?

How are things going now that a little time has passed? Have you had any compatibility problems? Have you tried various Thirty Bees cache settings, and were there any issues there? In the admin panel it is written that themes must be TB 1.0.x compatible in order to enable Combine/Compress/Cache options so I'm curious if that worked okay? Sorry for so many questions! I'm specifically interested in this theme and would be very thankful for any feedback current users may be able to share.