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Sign Up with WPEngine
This is the second part of our hosting WordPress with WP Engine series. Read the earlier WordPress Hosting with WPEngine. Sign Up With WP Engine If you”re ready to get started with WP Engine, visit its Plans & Pricing page click the Host My Website button appropriate for the plan level you’d like to start with: Create an […]
WordPress Hosting with WPEngine
Build a Website with WPEngine If you want to start or build a website on WordPress, WPEngine is an excellent WordPress hosting provider to explore. In this series, we’ll review and explore the basics of starting a website or migrating WordPress websites to WPEngine. Whether you’re building a professional website or a regularly updated news or […]
Moving Your WordPress Site
Introduction Here is a step by step guide to moving WordPress to a new server using the free Duplicator plugin, which makes migration a much simpler process. Initialize Your New Server You do need to configure your new server so that you have a new IP address to point your test domain to (described later). You might use our Guide […]
Installing WordPress at Digital Ocean on Ubuntu 14.04
Introduction Digital Ocean is an easy to use, economical hosting option with very fast performance. This tutorial describes how to install WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at Digital Ocean in a way that can be optimized with Varnish and W3 Total Cache for optimal performance for only $5 monthly. You can even run multiple WordPress sites […]
Installing at Amazon
We have a complete guide to installing WordPress in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
Sending and Receiving Email
[sc:MainTutorial]In order to send and receive email from your custom domain name, you’ll need to register with an email hosting service of some kind. While you can host your own email server, I don’t generally recommend it. One popular option that is no longer free is Google Apps for Business $5 per month per user. Microsoft’s […]
Choosing WordPress Hosting
[sc:MainTutorial]For most people, managed hosting is a good choice. Managed WordPress hosts take care of most of the complexity for you for a small premium. If you’re a technologist or a do it yourselfer, then you may want to self host on your own virtual server. Managed Hosting I recommend WPEngine for most clients but […]
Registering a Domain Name
Domain Name Registration In order to use a custom domain name such as jeffreifman.com, you have to find and register it at a domain name registrar. If the domain is not available, you’ll need to contact the domain name owner and offer to purchase it. Here are some useful guidelines for choosing a domain name. While […]
