This guide aims to help you set up DigitalOcean Spaces for storing site backups. Start by signing in to DigitalOcean. Create a Space Click Create in the header and select Spaces from the dropdown. Choose a datacenter region that’s geographically close to your server location. This will improve the time it takes to copy backup files…
When you invite a user to your account in SpinupWP you can choose the servers that they will have access to and their role. The role determines what things they are able to do on the servers they have access to. The role and server access of a user can be updated at any time…
SpinupWP utilizes two different types of system users. These users allow you to safely and conveniently manage your servers and sites. Let’s take a look at each. Sudo Users Following security best practices, SpinupWP disables SSH access for the root user on all servers. Instead, you can add sudo users, which will have sudo access. This…
The cache daemon is a little Go app we’ve written and deploy to every server to help with purging the page cache. The reason we need this daemon is an issue of file permissions. Each site runs a PHP pool as the site user but since cache files are owned by user www-data PHP cannot…
As described in Understanding System Users all sites deployed via SpinupWP are owned by a unique system user. This provides security isolation on the server because a site user cannot read or modify another site’s files. Each site is also deployed with a PHP-FPM resource pool, which is owned by the site user. This prevents…
The following plugins are installed with every WordPress site created and deployed by SpinupWP. However, for custom WordPress deployments you will need to install the following plugins yourself. SpinupWP This plugin adds page cache purging functionality to your WordPress site. In addition to automatically clearing the page cache for individual posts, pages, and other content…
All SpinupWP servers are configured with a default maximum upload size of 64MB. However, you may increase this limit if you need to allow larger files to be uploaded via the Media Library. This setting cannot be adjusted via the SpinupWP UI, so start by connecting to your server via SSH using a sudo user,…
There may come a time when you wish to promote an additional domain to become the primary domain used to access your site. This can be done from the Domains tab on your Site dashboard. When you change the primary domain, SpinupWP will perform all of the necessary actions to move and update the files…
WordPress will often need to send emails to you or your users. These emails are known as transactional email, and common ones include: Admin notifications New user signups and password resets Purchase receipts and order updates (WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, etc.) Form submission emails from form plugins Email servers are notoriously difficult to set up….
When you create a Git site in SpinupWP your server needs to be able to authenticate with your Git provider so it can run commands like git pull (which SpinupWP uses to deploy your site). Authentication happens using SSH keys and SpinupWP generates a unique SSH key for you to use to authenticate with your…
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