Once you’ve signed up for SpinupWP, and you’re ready to start spinning up WordPress sites, the first thing to do is to click Spin Up a New Server from the dashboard. Provisioning Your First Server Sites Migrate an Existing Site Adding a Site Editing a Site Email Provisioning Your First Server You’ll need to choose a…
Our Recommendations For sites where every page can be full page cached, we recommend a max of 20 sites on at least a 2 GB / 1 shared CPU server. For a site that has pages that can’t be cached (e.g. WooCommerce), we recommend just that one site on at least a 4 GB / 2…
Summary For small brochure style sites, we recommend no more than 10-20 sites on a 1 CPU / 2 GB server For sites that require more resources like WooCommerce installs, we recommend 1 site on a 2 CPU / 4 GB server It’s better to distribute your sites across more servers with fewer system resources…
Whether you’re moving a site from a managed WordPress host or a server you’ve set up yourself, this doc will guide you through the process of moving a site to your SpinupWP server with as little downtime as possible. Overview Moving a site to a SpinupWP server involves copying the site from the old server…
Although monitoring your servers is important, it’s even more important to monitor your sites. Be sure to check out our Site Monitoring doc as well. Although we’re definitely going to build server monitoring and alerting into SpinupWP in the future, it’s a huge project and we’re just not there yet. The good news is that…
You probably know that WordPress has a bad reputation for being insecure. But what you might not know is that often WordPress itself isn’t the issue. WordPress updates itself when a security update is released nowadays. It’s almost always an outdated plugin or theme that allows an attacker to exploit a WordPress site and give…
Caching, caching, caching! No additional plugins needed. People are often surprised that their site is a lot faster after moving it onto a server set up by SpinupWP. Although there can be lots of reasons why it’s faster, the most likely reason is caching. With page caching enabled, you essentially turn your WordPress site into…
SpinupWP will almost never make changes to the config files on your server on its own without you explicitly telling it to. Only when you take action in the dashboard (e.g. hit an Upgrade button) will it make changes to your config files. This is by design, so that you can schedule a time that’s…
Want to give your friends $50 in SpinupWP credits? Say hello to the SpinupWP Referral Program 🎉 Here’s how it works: No need to sign up, your unique referral link and dashboard can be found right inside your SpinupWP account. (Look for “Give a Friend $50” under your account drop-down in the upper right.) When…
To enable site monitoring, you can use the toggle in the Monitoring tab for your site. Once you have enabled monitoring for a site, you can see the current status of the site, along with a list of recent downtime incidents. Once enabled, site monitoring will check your site’s homepage for a 200 response every…
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