No, there’s no simple connection between your WordPress and FTP access and access to your hosting, whether you mean either shell access to the EC2 instance or access to the AWS dashboard. Even if your FTP account is a real Linux user account, EC2 instances won’t accept password SSH logins by default. You do have … Read more
From a quick look at wpengines headers it looks like there may be some info you can check. Your best bet is to get access to an account and dump out $_SERVER to see what’s in there. For example it looks like $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] = ‘WP Engine/4.0’. or perhaps $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]. As per the comments below it … Read more
@Tal, In terms of performance an unmanaged VPS will be better than a managed one. A Managed VPS will almost always come with CPanel which is great for shared hosting and for hosting companies to easily manage your VPS for you. You can still install any of the Opcode caching tools (APC, eAccelerator, XCache, MemCached) … Read more
WordPress can be a resource hog if you don’t use caching. W3 Total Cache could help you a lot with MySQL, Object and Page Caching. You should also install PHP-APC and use it with the plugin. It can do wonders.
WordPress is very clearly engineered for being placed into web-accessible folder. While attempt to move it from web folder could be made, it would be very challenging, especially for admin area which uses direct non-routed URLs to PHP files.
You can used this plugin Photonic for your requirement Photonic doesn’t just cover Google Photos – it allows you to add images from a range of services. Like the previous plugin, you’ll need to create API keys and authenticate with your Gooogle account in order to use it. Once you do, you are ready to … Read more
I unfortnately have no experience with this but evidently it can be done as these articles and plugins address some of the issues: HOWTO: Install WordPress On Nginx WordPress + nginx Compatibility Plugin Howto nginx + wordpress + ubuntu shortest setup Nginx front-end proxy cache for WordPress WordPress Pretty Permalinks with Nginx WordPress, Nginx and … Read more
Its not recommended often enough, but Flickr is an excellent image host for blogs as well. Their pro account costs only $25/year. You get unlimited image, video uploads and no bandwidth limit. If you don’t want your blog image uploads populating your personal photostream, you can easily create a separate account for it. You can … Read more
Saw that you and a few others had their doubts about Media Temple. First off, if you have any questions feel free to ask. We have a good amount of customers with different experiences, be it bad or good. The shared service gets a lot more grief than our VPS, which many of our customers … Read more
Any difference between dev and prod is bad. Here is what I do: Have a different ip for dev server (Whether internal, external, or on local computer is unimportant) — but dev server must be the exact same setup (see bottom paragraph) Change the hosts file (see here) (on yours or a testing computer or … Read more