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Learn how to combine incremental backups with full database backups and recover from failures quickly and thoroughly.
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Why you might want to use Ansible as your automation engine, how to install it and get it set up.
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In this final chapter, we offer a complete Nginx configuration optimized for WordPress sites. Not only does it amalgamate all the information from the previous chapters, but we also draw upon the best practices from our experience over the years.
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In this chapter we walk through setting up server monitoring and alerting on DigitalOcean. We discuss how to investigate problems when you get an alert. Then we emphasize the importance of keeping plugins and themes up-to-date, checking that backups are actually running, and watching log files for problems. Finally we walk through updating server software and upgrading PHP to a new major version.
Once you have your server up and running, the first thing you’re likely to want to do is move an existing site over to it from elsewhere. In this chapter we walk through copying the site files, Nginx configs, and SSL certificates. Next we export the database and import the database. Then we test the site on the new server before flipping the switch.
Even after configuring HTTPS to encrypt connections between the browser and server, sites are still open to other areas of attack such as XSS, Clickjacking and MIME sniffing. We’ll take a look at each of those and how to deal with them. You’ll learn what a referrer policy is and how it can be useful.
This chapter is dedicated to implementing an automated, reliable way to create website backups. We cover how to automate backing up your site files and database. Then we dive into copying your backups to an offsite location, using Amazon S3. Finally we take a look at how to save costs for your remote backup storage, by implementing lifecycle rules that move your S3 backups to Amazon Glacier storage.
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