This guide will walk you through connecting any provider to SpinupWP. You can connect servers hosted at any provider to SpinupWP as long as you provision a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 x64/ARM server with at least 2 GB of memory. Note that DigitalOcean and Akamai/Linode are both fully integrated with SpinupWP, meaning you can connect SpinupWP…
Akamai/Linode is a popular alternative to DigitalOcean, offering affordable servers from data centers located around the globe. Their shared CPU plans offer a good balance of performance and cost and are well suited for deploying a web server tuned for hosting WordPress websites. Akamai/Linode is fully integrated with SpinupWP, meaning you can connect SpinupWP to…
Hetzner Cloud is a solid and well-established server provider. It is the ideal server provider for European users, with affordable and powerful servers in Germany and Finland. Especially if you need to create a server in Europe due to GDPR policies. Hetzner is fully integrated with SpinupWP, meaning you can connect SpinupWP to your Hetzner…
Vultr is a popular alternative to DigitalOcean, offering affordable servers located around the globe. Their High Frequency Compute instances are noticeably fast and are well suited for WordPress hosting. Vultr is fully integrated with SpinupWP, meaning you can connect SpinupWP to your Vultr account and spin up servers at Vultr directly from your SpinupWP dashboard….
DigitalOcean is one of the most popular server providers. It’s designed for developers and their pricing has always been transparent. You can connect servers hosted at any provider to SpinupWP, but it’s less complex to provision new servers with DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean is fully integrated with SpinupWP, meaning you can connect SpinupWP to your DigitalOcean account…
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,…
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…
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…
The following plugins are installed with every WordPress site created and deployed by SpinupWP. However, for custom WordPress deployments you will need to install the following plugins yourself. SpinupWP This plugin adds page cache purging functionality to your WordPress site. In addition to automatically clearing the page cache for individual posts, pages, and other content…
When you install a WordPress site via SpinupWP, both WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG are enabled by default. This is because debug.log is useful for finding obscure issues which are hard to track down, especially on live sites. However, this often goes against conventional wisdom, which generally discourages the use of WP_DEBUG_LOG on live sites. Usually for…
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