This guide will walk you through connecting an AWS EC2 Instance to SpinupWP. Before you start this process, you will need to sign up for an Amazon AWS account if you don’t already have one. Launch An Instance Once signed in to Amazon AWS, navigate to Services > EC2. If you’re presented with the EC2 dashboard,…
DigitalOcean offers you the ability to assign reserved IPs to DigitalOcean Droplets. Reserved IPs are static IP addresses that can be reassigned to different Droplets that exist in the same data center. This is useful if you want to implement a failover mechanism. You can assign a reserved IP to one Droplet and have a…
At SpinupWP, we don’t lock you into using our service. You have complete control over your servers and you can disconnect them from SpinupWP at any time. However, this does mean you’ll have to keep up with security updates and best practices yourself. To disconnect a server from SpinupWP, select the Disconnect Server option from…
This guide aims to help you set up Backblaze for storing site backups. Start by signing in to Backblaze. Once logged in, it will take you to your list of B2 Cloud Storage Buckets. Create Bucket Click Create a Bucket. Give the bucket a unique bucket name. A good naming scheme is “domain-name-backups”, for example, “hellfish-media-backups”….
To ensure that your background WordPress tasks (scheduled posts, checking for plugin and theme updates, etc.) are actioned precisely when they should, SpinupWP configures a server-based scheduled task using the Linux cron service. This scheduled cron task uses WP-CLI to activate WP-Cron, which is the WordPress tool for checking for and processing scheduled tasks. Usually,…
Unlike macOS or Linux-based distributions, Windows does not come with a built-in terminal application that you can use to access an Ubuntu server via SSH, using public/private key authentication. However, you can use an application called PuTTY to generate an SSH key and use it to connect to your server’s command line. Download and Install PuTTY…
SpinupWP allows you to add Nginx basic authentication to your site. This can be useful for restricting access to a site for security reasons or if you’re simply running a site that needs to restrict access before you even get to WordPress. You can enable basic authentication by clicking on Settings from a SpinupWP site…
All SpinupWP Servers come with Certbot preinstalled so that you can use a free Let’s Encrypt certificate to secure traffic to and from your websites. While Let’s Encrypt certificates are more than suitable for most WordPress websites, you might be in a situation where you need to use a custom certificate from an external certificate…
You may be tempted to resize or upgrade your server when you’re running low on disk space, CPU, or memory. However, resizing and upgrading can be risky and you may want to explore freeing up disk space and moving sites to a new server instead. Why You Might Consider Resizing or Upgrading Your Server There are…
There are often situations where you need to perform a disk space check on your Ubuntu server. Perhaps you checked the dashboard widget and saw your disk usage was too high, or you received a warning about a backup failing, and you ended up here. The Disk Usage Command To quickly hunt down files or folders…
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