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Sorry, Your Website is Gone
A client of mine had three websites hosted at BlueHost. One day they were all down. She called BlueHost and they said, “Sorry, due to a hardware failure, all of your files are gone.” Forever, irretrievable, vanished, gonzo, later, sayonara, oh, yeah, sorry. Ouch.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted
We were having trouble with a site’s memory limits. We had a dozen or so plugins running, but nothing out of the ordinary, and we kept hitting memory limits. What to do? Switch hosts.
Can’t access site in Mexico
A client couldn’t access her site in Mexico. I thought maybe it was just her laptop, but she’d try it from someone else’s computer, then an Internet cafe and still nada.
WordPress Installation Checklist
Here are the steps I use when I set up a new site in WordPress. Lots of steps, plugins, options, settings, installations and configurations, but you’ll be ready for prime time.
WordPress Tutorial | Change DNS information, A record
You have your files and database backed up and restored to your new host. Now it’s time to tell the domain to point to the new host.
WordPress Tutorial | Restore files and database
Now that you have your files and database backed up from your previous host, we need to upload them (or “restore” them) to the new host.
Host Gator
I’ve been using Host Gator for quite some time and I have to say I’m liking it. cPanel, toll-free phone support, locals who answer the phone. Oh, did I mention speed? Go go Gator!
WordPress Auto Install on GoDaddy
With GoDaddy’s Deluxe Hosting, you can set up an unlimited amount of websites. Using their auto installer for WordPress, you can have your WordPress site up in under ten minutes.
Moving WordPress from one sub-directory to another
I needed to move a site from the sub-directory /wordpress/to the new one /blog/. No worries: bit of an .htaccess file edit and I should be set, right? Not so fast.
Moving Email
If you’re changing hosts and you use you@yourdomain.com, it can be difficult or impossible to transfer old email (sent items, inbox, etc.) and your address book. If you don’t care about that old mail or address book, great, no worries. If you would like to try to keep some of that, here are a few [...]
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