It’s actually much easier than I thought. Simply spin up a VPS from a hosting provider of your choice, and follow the following steps. Note that I use Ubuntu as the version of Linux because that’s what I am more familiar with. If you are familiar with others, the steps […]
SSL is used to be a luxurious security component for the big companies. Not anymore, thanks to the low cost or even free SSL certificate issued by the trusted commercial Certificate Authority (CA) such as Let’s Encrypt. With the recent recommendation by Google, more and more websites, big or small, are […]
phpMyAdmin is a GUI-based web app to manage your MySQL databases. It’s a very powerful tool to have but it’s also an unnecessary component that you don’t need to use if you are familiar with MySQL basic commands. What’s better, since it’s easy to put on and remove you can […]
I have got this error when trying to crop the images during the process setting up the logo. There has been an error cropping your image The reason behind this is because it’s missing the PHP Graphic library. Since it’s on a VPS server I probably forgot to install it […]
The default value set up in PHP limits the maximum upload file size to 2 MB. Therefore, a new WordPress powered website in VPS will have the same limit that maximizes the upload file size to 2 MB, like below when you were trying to upload a file to Media […]
A Swap Space is a space on a hard disk used as the virtual memory extension of a computer’s real memory. Having a swap space enabled allows your computer’s operating system to pretend that you have more RAM than you actually installed, only being used mainly when there is no […]
The database is the backbone to all WordPress websites, which is why knowing how to back up and restore MySQL database is a crucial step to getting prepared when needed. Here is how you can do it and do it all from the shell command line without the popular phpMyAdmin. […]
I had hosted my WordPress websites on the shared hosting plan for years and finally made the change a few months back. The result, I will never look back. And that’s why I decided to post a series of posts to record this transition and hope to help anyone who came […]