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 […]

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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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How to Install WordPress in the Cloud

[sc:wpcloud]In a day and age where people routinely post their thoughts on Facebook, an unlinkable, unsearchable, corporate-controlled walled-“garden”, I’m a big fan of owning your own blog. Not only does it give you full creative control, but it’s free of censorship, gives you full ownership, is optimized for search engines and is fully linkable and shareable. […]

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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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