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How to Extend SpinupWP’s Site Monitoring with Oh Dear
Keep SpinupWP’s site monitor running, then add checks for the page content, the public certificate, and any scheduled task you cannot afford to miss. SpinupWP checks the uncached homepage every minute. It expects a 200 response, verifies an apparent outage from a second server,…
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Modern Real Estate Digital Strategy: How Real Coder Scales with SpinupWP
Real Coder is a specialized digital agency based in Australia that bridges the gap between high-end web development and future-proof SEO for the real estate industry. Founded on the principle that agencies should move away from “cookie-cutter” solutions, Real Coder focuses on…
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Server Security Hardening for Running WordPress
Even after configuring HTTPS to encrypt connections between the browser and server, sites are still open to other areas of attack such as XSS, Clickjacking and MIME sniffing. We’ll take a look at each of those and how to deal with them. You’ll learn what a referrer policy is and…
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Configure Redis Object Cache and Nginx FastCGI Page Cache for WordPress
We’ll start this chapter with a benchmark of site speed without caching and end it with a benchmark with caching enabled. We’ll install Redis and a companion WordPress plugin that will work together to enable object caching. Next we’ll return to our Nginx config files and add a…
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Automated Backups to Amazon S3
This chapter is dedicated to implementing an automated, reliable way to create website backups. We cover how to automate backing up your site files and database. Then we dive into copying your backups to an offsite location, using Amazon S3. Finally we take a look at how to save…
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Configure Nginx to Serve WordPress Over HTTPS
In this chapter we’ll discuss HTTPS and why it’s so important before updating our DNS and obtaining our first SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. Then we’ll add a new config file to Nginx for our first site complete with a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. Next we’ll create a…
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2025 Year in Review: A New Chapter
TL;DR – We shipped lots of great stuff, customer support is stronger than ever, marketing stalled, and George now owns the company. This is my eleventh year in review post since I started writing them: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. Team This…
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Migrating WordPress to a New Server
Once you have your server up and running, the first thing you’re likely to want to do is move an existing site over to it from elsewhere. In this chapter we walk through copying the site files, Nginx configs, and SSL certificates. Next we export the database and import the…
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Install Nginx, PHP 8.4, WP-CLI, and MySQL 8.4
This chapter is all about setting up the software needed to run a WordPress site. First we’ll install Nginx and configure it with better settings for our use. Next we’ll install PHP and its packages required by WordPress and configure PHP-FPM. Then we’ll install WP-CLI and…
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Set Up and Secure a VPS on DigitalOcean
In this chapter we’ll provision a new VPS at DigitalOcean with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. We’ll login to the server via SSH, configure the hostname and timezone, install software updates, and set up automatic security updates. Then we’ll create a new sudo user, set up SSH login with keys…