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…
While it’s not a common occurrence, there may be an instance where backing up your site files and database might fail. SpinupWP will actively notify you of this, both in the app and by email, so you’re made aware of it as soon as it happens. Large Backups When site backups get up to hundreds of…
One of the minor inconveniences in owning and managing your own web servers is knowing which operating system to use. There are a wide variety of open-source Linux distributions (or distros) available for your web server. SpinupWP recommends using either Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04, which are both LTS releases. If you do a bit…
By default, on a new WordPress install, minor versions of WordPress core are set to automatically update for you. However, major versions of WordPress core, plugins and themes are not set to update automatically. You can read more about automatic updates built into WordPress and configuration options here. SpinupWP automatically checks for updates to WordPress…
SpinupWP fully supports Git-based sites out-of-the-box, including support for Bedrock. We have our own git and Composer template, which is designed for SpinupWP. You can even configure push-to-deploy so that any code changes are automatically deployed to your server as they’re pushed to a Git provider like GitHub or Bitbucket. How It Works Whenever a Git…
Caching is king when it comes to WordPress performance. A well-optimized page cache like that of SpinupWP can unlock blazingly fast load times and handle hundreds of concurrent requests without breaking a sweat. However, not all sites can be page cached. Highly dynamic WordPress sites, such as community forums, often have page caching disabled. Similarly,…
Sometimes your WordPress site will show a blank white screen and nothing else. In the WordPress community, this is known as the WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD) (a nod to the Blue Screen of Death when a Windows computer has a fatal system error). The White Screen of Death occurs when a request to…
There may come a time when you wish to move a site to a new server. Maybe a site has outgrown its current server, shared amongst several sites, and it’s time to move it to its own server. Or, your site is running on an outdated version of Ubuntu, and you’d like to migrate it…
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