This guide aims to help you set up Wasabi for storing site backups. Start by signing in to Wasabi. Once logged in, it will take you to your list of buckets. Create Bucket Click Create Bucket. Give the bucket a unique bucket name. A good naming scheme is “domain-name-backups”, for example, “hellfish-media-backups”. Select a region that’s…
Want to give your friends $50 in SpinupWP credits? Say hello to the SpinupWP Referral Program 🎉 Here’s how it works: No need to sign up, your unique referral link and dashboard can be found right inside your SpinupWP account. (Look for “Give a Friend $50” under your account drop-down in the upper right.) When…
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 It’s almost always an outdated plugin or theme that allows an attacker to exploit a WordPress site and give…
Caching, caching, caching! No additional plugins needed. People are often surprised that their site is a lot faster after moving it onto a server set up by SpinupWP. Although there can be lots of reasons why it’s faster, the most likely reason is caching. With page caching enabled, you essentially turn your WordPress site into…
SpinupWP will almost never make changes to the config files on your server on its own without you explicitly telling it to. Only when you take action in the dashboard (e.g. hit an Upgrade button) will it make changes to your config files. This is by design, so that you can schedule a time that’s…
Although monitoring your servers is important, it’s even more important to monitor your sites. Be sure to check out our Site Monitoring doc as well. Although we’re definitely going to build server monitoring and alerting into SpinupWP in the future, it’s a huge project and we’re just not there yet. The good news is that…
To restore a site from a site backup in SpinupWP simply click the “Restore” action in the list of backups. You will be prompted to confirm that you want to restore the site from a backup as restoring a site is a destructive action (all existing files and data will be deleted). For this reason,…
While we do not officially support the installation of web apps other than WordPress, web apps that run on a LEMP stack (Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Redis, etc) can be set up to run on SpinupWP servers. This includes popular frameworks like Laravel and Symfony and CMSs like Drupal (with an Nginx config), Craft CMS, Statamic,…
SpinupWP currently supports two different types of redirect: Domain redirects (e.g. redirecting www.example.com to example.com) Path redirects (e.g. redirecting example.com/old-post to example.com/new-post) In this doc, we’ll go over domain redirects. To learn more about creating path redirects, see our Path Redirects doc. Domain redirects are handled automatically by SpinupWP. Below we walk you through redirecting…
SpinupWP automatically tries to renew HTTPS certificates for your sites but sometimes the renewal can fail. In this case, SpinupWP will send you an Error renewing your HTTPS certificate email with an explanation of what happened and the error output from the process. Sometimes it’s not clear what the error means or how you can…
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