Hosting alternatives to WordPress.com [closed]
Have a look at page.ly WP Engine I’m sure there are plenty of others. I’m specifically discounting hosts that provide 1-click installs because even they require some administration.
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Restoring WordPress posts from database only
Re-install a new copy of wordpress and then put in the credentials to your database in the new install. If you install wordpress and try to load the domain with no database attached, it will start the site creation wizard. Just enter the correct database credentials (username, database name, password, and location) and it will … Read more
How do you seamlessly switch hosting?
Put old host in read-only mode Go to WP Admin -> Settings -> Discussion and check “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” Disable authentication: Create a PHP file inside the wp-content/mu-plugins folder, with the following content: <?php function wp_get_current_user() { return new WP_User(-1); } This will prevent all logged-in users from leaving … Read more
Can you host WordPress using Amazon Web Services such as EC2, RDS, EBS etc?
You explicitly mention three services in your question title: EC2, RDS and EBS. If they’re the three services you’re interested in, then yes, very easily. EC2 + EBS are pretty much the same thing, EBS is simply a persistent storage extension to EC2, and RDS is a full MySQL database – you should be able … Read more
What is the best php version to use with WordPress?
There isn’t (and shouldn’t) be an answer with any specific version for this. New versions come out, old versions get discontinued. At the minimum you should use supported version of PHP. This ensures it still receives bug fixes and (or for less recent version) security updates. Preferably you should be use the latest stable version … Read more
Hosting WordPress on Azure?
WordPress seems to be one of the poster children of PHP on Azure, so you can find many resources explaining how to install it.
Migrating a WordPress site from One Hosting Provider to Another?
Hi @ooo: Assuming you want to keep the same domain, it’s really quite simple. Basically you copy the files using an FTP client by downloading from the old host and uploading to the new one, and then you copy the MySQL database by doing a database dump to a SQL script (this is your “export”) … Read more
How to run WordPress across 2 VMs for high availability
The Bad News: The core open source base of WordPress does make quite a few assumptions about being run on a single server (wp-content, user uploads and media library to name a few) The Good News: Pretty much all cloud providers (including Azure) have abstractions that allow you to work around these design limitations. Fundamentally, … Read more
Essential technical features for high-end WordPress web hosting? [closed]
I think we also need a few more features: Minifying JS, CSS and the HTML that is being sent down the wire. Caching the op-code of the PHP that will be generated (apart from Memcached). Upload the JS, CSS and Images that are used in the theme and/or plugin to a CDN and sync automatically. … Read more
WORDPRESS Updating failed. Error message. The response is not a valid JSON response
How have you updated the links? Because if you changed only the two URLs in the settings, that’s not enough. You must update all the link in the database via plugin or a SQL query (much better solution).