If you SSH into an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server, you might see a message that encourages you to simply run a command to upgrade to 22.04 LTS: We strongly recommend against upgrading any server with a command like this for a few reasons. However, we can recommend the following options. Option 1: Start Fresh Instead of…
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…
The cache daemon is a little Go app we’ve written and deploy to every server to help with purging the page cache. The reason we need this daemon is an issue of file permissions. Each site runs a PHP pool as the site user but since cache files are owned by user www-data PHP cannot…
Installation To get started, require the package globally via Composer: composer global require spinupwp/spinupwp-cli In addition, you should make sure the /vendor/bin directory in your global Composer home directory is in your system’s “PATH”. Depending on your operating system this could be either ~/.composer/ or ~/.config/composer/. You can use the composer config –global home command…
SpinupWP makes it very easy to switch the version of PHP that runs a site: From a site’s dashboard, select Settings from the left menu. Select your desired version of PHP from the drop-down menu. Click Save If you select a version of PHP that has not been installed on the server, it will be…
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…
Cloudflare is a reverse proxy service that can help to secure and speed-up your sites. While SpinupWP is fully compatible with Cloudflare, there are a few Cloudflare settings that can cause problems. This doc aims to outline those problems. Too Many Redirects If you’re receiving the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error when accessing your HTTPS enabled site that is…
Push-to-Deploy is the name of SpinupWP’s continuous deployment feature. It allows you to automatically deploy code to your site when you push code to a git repo. How to Use Push-to-Deploy To get started, you’ll need the following: A site managed in a Git repo. SSH access to that specific Git repo. A live SpinupWP server….
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…
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