File Ownership and Permissions

In order for some of WordPress’ features to function, it will need write access to your site’s files and folders. This is true of the following features: Media Library uploads Adding/updating plugins and themes Updating WordPress core If you manage WordPress core, plugins, and/or themes via git, Composer or some other deployment process, WordPress will…

Getting Started

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…

Understanding WP-Cron

WP-Cron or WordPress cron is the system built into WordPress that handles the scheduling of time-based tasks. Out-of-the-box, WordPress performs a number of scheduled tasks, they include: WordPress core update checks Plugin update checks Theme update checks Publishing of scheduled posts Plugins can also utilize WP-Cron to schedule additional tasks, such as a backup plugin…

WooCommerce Performance Optimizations

While SpinupWP already performs several performance optimizations for you, see Why Is My Site so Much Faster on SpinupWP?, there are still several approaches and strategies to consider when optimizing a WooCommerce store. Due to how vastly different WooCommerce stores can be, some of these performance optimizations may or may not apply to you, and…

Create a Custom SpinupWP Dashboard in Under 30 minutes Using Laravel and Inertia

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…

Caching in SpinupWP

WordPress is a database driven CMS, meaning there are many moving parts when handling an incoming request. Out-of-the-box WordPress has to query the database and render the page before it can be sent to a user. This happens on every single incoming request, which is hugely inefficient if the page content hasn’t changed. A typical…

Migrating a Site to a SpinupWP Server

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…

Keeping Servers and Sites Secure

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…

How to Fix: Nginx Failing to Start and Showing Dependency Errors

If Nginx won’t start for you after running apt dist-upgrade (or apt upgrade) and you’re seeing Nginx dependency errors similar to those below, this doc can help you get those dependencies resolved and Nginx started. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libnginx-mod-brotli : Depends: nginx-abi-1.24.0-1 but it is not installable libnginx-mod-ssl-ct : Depends: nginx-abi-1.24.0-1 but…

Todos

Cloud servers are remarkably reliable these days and require only a little maintenance to keep them running smoothly and securely. SpinupWP is an unmanaged service, which means that you’re responsible for that little bit of maintenance. The advantage being that your server is very unlikely to go down while you’re sleeping because of someone making…