Resting a site for a couple of years

You can use a myriad of plugins out there, or do it manually. Plugin: Almost never used one, from the looks of it, this should do the job: https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/ – you can also search for other plugins that “migrate”. Make sure that the exported *.zip (or other format) file contains the database, the code and … Read more

What’s more important for supporting concurrent users on an elearning site with dynamic content, CPUs or RAM?

In my experience, neither is as important as PHP Workers. If you’re on a good hosting platform (like FlyWheel/WPEngine or Kinsta) you can look to get a customized configuration for your account and request an increase in the number of PHP Workers. A PHP Worker is what builds pages and handles back end requests – … Read more

How many WP websites can go on one shared hosting account?

Number of installs is not determined by WordPress, it is determined purely by hosting resources and policies. From personal experience even one blog with 1k daily visits can border overusing CPU quotas on crappy shared hosting with overstuffed server. If you want to force this through – request specific resource usage policies and hard numbers … Read more

Fantastico pros and cons

I always thought that Fantastico essentially just; Placed a copy of WordPress on your server (not always the latest version, as you say, this is a local copy limited by the update frequency of Fantastico) Set-up a database (and user) automatically Configured wp-config.php accordingly Then you’d just continue to use WordPress for maintenance as you … Read more

How to host and manage for clients

Backups: Sounds like you need two types. 1. Versioning (eg use Git or SVN) and 2. Failsafe backup – some good plugins for this, or use a cron job to backup the WP files and database Sounds like there’s two needs here as well. 1. An environment to easily scale WP and 2. A host … Read more