What To Do If Your WordPress Website Gets Hacked
With WordPress being so popular and the vast amount of themes and plugins, it is a favorite target for hackers. In 99% of cases, your WordPress website is not actually targeted, most of the hacks are automated and carried out by bots. Why do hackers hack WordPress websites? Usually, they are using your […]
Continue Reading...Easy WordPress Staging With VersionPress
We recently changed the way you access GIT on all of our servers and have also now added wp-cli to all of our servers which makes it easy to setup WordPress Staging and recovery for your WordPress site. To set this up we will use VersionPress which is really an amazing plugin that is […]
Continue Reading...WooCommerce 2 Billion Hits A Month 0.7 Second Load
WooCommerce is an extremely popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress. If you have an online store or are looking to setup one you will most likely be somewhat familiar with it. Woocommerce has a reputation for being harder on server resources that regular WordPress, and many people recommend a good sized VPS (2GB Ram+) for […]
Continue Reading...Amazon S3 Storage With Cloudflare As CDN
In previous articles I outlined how you can offload WordPress media files to Amazons S3 as well as use Amazons Cloudfront as a CDN to serve those files. This decreases load on your site, storage, and offers better load times on media files for your readers. Than I got to thinking. Why not use […]
Continue Reading...Amazon S3 Cloudfront For Your WordPress Site
In our previous article Amazon S3 Storage For Your WordPress Site we explained how to save space and reduce load on your WordPress site by offloading media to Amazons S3. In this article we will take things farther and show you how you can serve those same files through Amazons Cloudfront. This is serving your files through […]
Continue Reading...Amazon S3 Storage For Your WordPress Site
In many cases much of your resource use comes from serving files on your WordPress site. An easy and cheap way to lower resource use is to use Amazon S3 Storage For Your WordPress Site. This is quite easy and actually free for 1 year if you stay within the free tiers limitations. First we […]
Continue Reading...Install WordPress On cPanel
Here at Kickassd we are firm believers in not using 1 click installers as they just have too much potential for creating bad installs that cause headaches for people. So here is a quick and simple Install WordPress On cPanel guide. Before you go any farther go download the latest version of WordPress: https://wordpress.org/download/ (grab the […]
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