Installing WordPress

[sc:wpcloud]It’s time for the fun part of installing WordPress. Full instructions are supplied in more detail at WordPress’ Codex. Upgrade to the latest Ubuntu distribution and its packages: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Create a www directory with permissions for the Apache web server: sudo mkdir /var/www sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www cd /var/www Download the latest version […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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