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[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.
Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case how Scanfully 2.0 is making WordPress security and performance monitoring simpler.
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So on the podcast today we have Remkus de Vries. Remkus has been active in the WordPress space for over 20 years, starting out with his own agency focused on high performance, scalable WordPress websites. Over time he has diversified into education and community building with projects like WithinWP, and a new initiative, The Guild, which is a paid community aimed at helping people build smarter, more performance, sites through a first principles approach.
Our conversation centres on Scanfully, a site health and monitoring SaaS Remkus co-founded, which recently hit version 2.0. Scanfully’s focus is giving users meaningful, actionable, insights into WordPress site, health, security performance, email, deliverability, DNS, and more. Packing all this data into an easy to understand dashboard.
We talk about Remkus’ motivation for diving deep into the complexities of WordPress monitoring, and why many users struggle to keep on top of the technical side of their websites. Remkus argues that too many site owners are stuck in a reactive mode, only investigating issues once something breaks.