How to Setup a Web Server with Three Commands

by Patrick Garman January 6^th, 2012 4 Responses

I bet cPanel makes you feel warm and cozy inside like a cup of hot chocolate by a fire. It does all the thinking and work for you, and most hosts even have an auto-installer setup where you can just click and install scripts without having to set anything up yourself. Life is easy isn’t it? Then you made the decision to move to your own server, and all those awesome perks disappeared. If there was only a way to get them all back without breaking the bank. We’re going to do just that, quickly and easily.

Webuzo

Tutorials

How to Setup Your Own Nginx Powered WordPress Server

by Patrick Garman December 20^th, 2011 29 Responses

Why not just stick with shared hosts?
Shared hosting can only take you so far when you are trying to build a website. At a certain point you are going to realize that your website just isn’t loading quickly enough for you and you want a bit more power behind it. In an age where site speed makes all the difference you have probably already tried to squeeze every bit of optimization out of your site with caching plugins. It would be great to have a dedicated server, but that would get a bit expensive ($100+/month).

Opinion

WordPress runs well on Windows. Full Stop. Period.

by Philip John July 21^st, 2011 6 Responses

WordPress runs well on Windows. Full Stop. Period.

Those are the words uttered by Microsoft’s Andy Robb at WordCamp UK in Portsmouth last weekend as he took us through a journey through past, present and future.

Starting with the past, Andy conceded that previous versions of IIS (Microsoft’s server software and rival to Apache) was certainly not adequate, relying on slow CGI and unreliable ISAPI.

With IIS 7 he says the situation is much improved. A default installation is now much more minimal, using a streamlined processing pipeline and FastCGI for dealing with PHP requests (much-needed for running WordPress sites).

Community, Development, News, Plugins

WP-phpmyadmin Plugin Poses a Huge Security Risk

by Sarah Gooding June 28^th, 2011 2 Responses

Big surprise, right? Why in the world anybody would be using a plugin called WP-phpmyadmin is beyond me, but reports are our that many sites are being hacked through it. Formerly housed at wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpmyadmin/, this plugin has already been pulled from the WordPress repository. If for some reason you’re using this plugin, delete it now.

Community, Development, News, Plugins

The Lazy Man’s WordPress Server Diagnosis Tool

by Sarah Gooding November 3^rd, 2010 1 Response

The Diagnosis plugin adds subpages to the Dashboard menu with technical details about PHP, MySQL and other server details an administrator might need. It includes an information page and phpinfo() page that make technical data very easy for the average WordPress user to view. The image below shows some sample data, but the plugin includes much more.

BuddyPress, Community, News, Plugins

Streamline WordPress Support and Get Comprehensive Server Data With ServerBuddy

by Sarah Gooding April 14^th, 2010 Leave a comment

One of the things we love most about WordPress is that it is remarkably easy for non-programmers to update content. With the advent of custom post types in WordPress 3.0, passing off a WordPress installation to a client or non-tech savvy person is becoming more realistic. However, sometimes the ease of adding plugins and themes can create problems when the user doesn’t fully understand his server’s capabilities. Enter the new ServerBuddy plugin.