Personally, I back up my site with a plugin and don’t rely on my web host provider to create backups. ManageWP is a good option for website backups. However, if you need to upload your backups to own cloud storage (like Amazon S3, Dropbox) from ManageWP, you have to pay the extra fee for that … Read more
You can’t, and you shouldn’t. If you did it would not give a true reflection of speed with a full wordpress backend. Go back to your client and tell them that this isn’t how it works. You’ll need a full copy of the site to test on various hosts. I’ve been through this many times … Read more
The credentials for your database are located in the wp-config.php file. Make sure those settings are correct. In particular, non-ASCII characters may be causing a problem. Or an extra space in any value (especially the password). Look at the user/pass/dbname in your host also. An extra space at the end of the password in wp-config … Read more
Migrating existing site to Azure is slow
Fastcomet support to the rescue! After submitting a ticket with them, they solved everything and now my website is blazing fast once again.
The issue is that images URLs are stored in the database as a full URL; domain and all. When you move a site to a new URL, that doesn’t update the URLs in the database. So a ‘search and replace’ process is needed to go through the database and replace your www.olddomain.com with your www.newdomain.com … Read more
Alternatives to hosting WordPress post content?
Well I’ve never faced this issue but here is worthy suggestion as per my experience. If your website is running fine before migration, then you can use Duplicator migration plugin which is very easy & useful for migration. It will never produce any this type of error.
Yes, you can mix WordPress and non-WordPress together. You just need to be careful of files and filenames, as well as URL rewrites. You’ll also need to consider file structure so you don’t have things stepping on each other. The ideal in my opinion is to maintain WordPress in a subfolder. Note that that is … Read more
Links to root domain from search engines don’t work, but direct links and links from other referrers do