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
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
What you are looking for is called “CDN” or “Content Delivery Network”. Here is a WIKI! definition if you are not familiar. There are plenty of good tutorials out there that will show you how to carry this out using WordPress. Here is one you can have a look at. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wordpress-cdn-content-delivery-network-configuration.html
Short answer: No, WordPress doesn’t care about pastebin in particular and doesn’t do any sort of filtering like you’re describing. Long answer: Your host is doing it. Step 1: Ask your host if they have mod_security enabled and what their filtering rules are. Step 2: Try pasting the same link via a comment or something. … Read more
You can follow the WordPress docs and leave WordPress in a directory but have it appear to be in root. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install This will correctly change the location in the database. This might be the best way to go if the host requires WordPress to be in a subfolder for some reason. Or, you can … Read more
I highly recommend Amazon AWS. You can continue to use WP Super Cache with Amazon S3 (for storage of your static files such as images etc). For high traffic scenarios, you can set up auto scaling rules of EC2 server instances to set up new servers as needed (and cut them when not needed). This … Read more
This is a partially subjective question, so it may get closed on that basis. Answer given here may be somewhat subjective but tries to cover the main considerations. Short Answer The short answer is you’ll definitely have a much easier life running WordPress on Linux. This is simply due to many more people hosting WordPress … Read more
I addition to the methods you have mentioned, the biggest way to speed up your loading time is with a caching plugin. There are many in the WordPress Plugin Directory, but my favorite is Quick Cache.
WordPress will run on a toaster these days, it really doesn’t have high requirements. Just make sure it’s a Linux server, any comapny worth anything will have PHP and mySQL up to date enough for WordPress. What your’re going to have to struggle with is different companies offering different packages and then not being fully … Read more
Anchor will setup apache or nginx for me – but which should I choose?! Based on your concerns, I’d recommend Nginx -> Apache stack. Please let me explain. By default, Nginx can only process static content, such as images, CSS and JS files. Nginx passes PHP requests to PHP-FPM or to other servers such as … Read more