UP Globe

<p>UP Globe is a WordPress plugin that allows you to test your website’s speed and availability from real devices across the world (200 countries / territories) using residential IP addresses. It measures Time to First Byte (TTFB) per country, helping you identify regions where your website is slow, blocked, or degraded.</p>
<p>Key Features:<br />
* Visualize global performance via dynamic charts.<br />
* Test site access from behind firewalls, bans, or CDN blocks.<br />
* Each country performs its own DNS lookup, so CDN-based sites are tested against the actual edge node used in that region.</p>
<p>Who Is It For?<br />
If you serve an international audience or want to verify if your content is truly available globally, UP Globe gives you insights from real users in real places — not just data center probes.</p>
<p>Third-Party Libraries:<br />
UP Globe uses the following open source libraries:<br />
* Select2 — Licensed under the MIT License. License file: /licenses/select2/LICENSE.md<br />
* Apache ECharts — Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. License file: /licenses/echarts/LICENSE</p>
<h3>Freemium Model</h3>
<p>UP Globe is free to use with no signup required. Each WordPress installation receives 250 free monitoring credits every week. These credits are automatically refreshed and can be used to run global availability and performance checks from real devices in over 200 countries.<br />
If you require more checks than the free weekly quota allows, you can optionally purchase additional credits through our platform. There are no subscriptions — you only pay for what you need.<br />
The core plugin remains fully functional with the free tier. Once the quota is exhausted, checks will pause until the next weekly reset or until additional credits are added. No features are hidden behind a paywall, and no data is locked or lost due to quota limits.</p>
<h3>Contact & Support</h3>
<p>If you have questions or need support, please email support@up-globe.com.</p>
<h3>Refund Policy</h3>
<p>UP Globe is fully functional as a free plugin. Every installation receives free weekly credits to monitor your website from real devices in 200+ countries.<br />
You only need to pay if you want to run more checks than the free credits allow. Paid credits are non-refundable once used.<br />
If a technical issue prevents you from using purchased credits, contact us within 7 days of purchase — we’ll review your case individually.</p>
<h3>Terms of Service</h3>
<p>Please visit https://up-globe.com/terms for the full Terms of Service.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Please visit https://up-globe.com/privacy for the Privacy Policy details.</p>


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* HyperDB can be connect to an arbitrary number of database servers,<br />
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HyperDB

HyperDB is a amazing feature.


	You want to make two websites share a (user) table? OK!
	You want to make a website use two databases so we can create a development workflow to "deploy" content in the same time we persist production data? OK!
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Of course is unnecessary to talk about how it can help in scaling... Just perfect.


It's just amazing!

This plugin works very well with AWS RDS and read replica.

Works very well with RDS and read Replica

Maybe this plugin is not so popular because many WordPress users are just not technical users, but I truly glad the plugin is here, and hopefully the WordPress team still always have a time to maintenance this :)

Kudos! 

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HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning.

UP Globe vs HyperDB