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.
WordPress seems to be one of the poster children of PHP on Azure, so you can find many resources explaining how to install it.
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
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
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
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).
I use Google Cloud to host WordPress, and their Always Free Tier Compute Engine Instance is enough for a small personal site. It is a little bit more complicated to setup than WPEngine, but the easiest way to host WordPress on Google Cloud is to use a prebuilt image from the Google Cloud Marketplace. I … Read more
I am in a really interesting situation right now. After migrating a client website from a development environment using, WP Clone by WP Academy, I get this error when trying to upload images via the Worpress media uploader. “image.png” has failed to upload due to an error Unable to create directory uploads/2015/07. Is its parent … Read more
I am using GoDaddy Windows Shared Hosting Server to host my WordPress Website. I am NOT using GoDaddy Managed WordPress service (I just copied my files on server, created DB and site works). However, I am facing some issues as follows : Permalinks do not seem to work – Despite of the fix in .htaccess … Read more
You need to check the DNS the domain name is pointed to. You may check the nameservers (=DNS) in public Whois database: https://www.whois.net/ Also, this resourse should help: http://www.whoishostingthis.com/
So there are effectively two platforms. WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Upgrading to the ‘premium’ version of WordPress is on the .com side, which means they would host your site, whereas hostgator is a hosting company that would host the .org part of WordPress. You would have to migrate from .com to .org for the hostgator. But … Read more