This guide will help you set up an Akamai/Linode managed MySQL database for use with new servers set up by SpinupWP. By the end of this tutorial, you will have the database hostname, port, username, password, and database name you need to configure the managed MySQL database as an external database in SpinupWP. To get…
This guide will walk you through connecting any provider to SpinupWP. You can connect servers hosted at any provider to SpinupWP as long as you provision a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 x64/ARM server with at least 2 GB of memory. Note that DigitalOcean and Akamai/Linode are both fully integrated with SpinupWP, meaning you can connect SpinupWP…
This guide aims to help you set up an Akamai/Linode Bucket for storing site backups. Start by signing in to Akamai/Linode. Create Bucket Click Create in the header and select Bucket from the dropdown. Note: Linode Object Storage is a globally-available, S3 Compatible storage solution, maintaining the same performance as your data grows. Enter a unique…
Once a PHP version reaches End of Life status, any security issues which arise will go unpatched. They can quickly become a major security concern for your server and should be removed completely as soon as possible. Upgrade Sites Before removing a PHP version from the server, you should check for any sites on the server…
When using Rank Math for redirects, you may find that your sitemap isn’t working as intended. You may see a notification under Rank Math > Sitemaps or your /sitemap_index.xml page may be blank. This is because Rank Math creates a virtual sitemap dynamically that relies on using redirects at the server-level. To fix this, you…
DigitalOcean is one of the most popular server providers. It’s designed for developers and their pricing has always been transparent. You can connect servers hosted at any provider to SpinupWP, but it’s less complex to provision new servers with DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean is fully integrated with SpinupWP, meaning you can connect SpinupWP to your DigitalOcean account…
Smush and Imagify provide directives for serving WebP images in place of .png and .jpg images. In SpinupWP, caching configurations in the static-files.conf file already has a location block that matches .png and .jpg images, so the directives from Smush and Imagify are overwritten. Below we’ll cover how to add these directives so you can…
This guide aims to help you set up Amazon S3 for storing site backups. Start by signing in to the AWS Management Console. Create Bucket Navigate to S3 and click Create bucket. Enter a unique bucket name. A good naming scheme is “domain-name-backups,” for example, “hellfish-media-backups”. The region should be geographically close to your server location….
If you’re an agency or a freelance web designer using SpinupWP to manage your servers, chances are you’ll need to give clients access to manage their own websites. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how you can build a custom SpinupWP dashboard using the SpinupWP SDK, the popular PHP framework Laravel, and Inertia.js. SpinupWP provides…
SpinupWP currently offers site monitoring on all Team plans. Users on a Personal plan will need to upgrade to a Team plan if they want to enable site monitoring. You can enable monitoring on 10 sites per server at no extra charge. The 11th and subsequent sites monitored on a server will incur a charge…
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