WordPress Permission Problems on IIS
While I would never recommend running WordPress on a Windows box unless you have to (having done this for several years and the performance was just never on par with a Linux equivalent), if you must ...
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GoDaddy’s WordPress Migration Tool: Simple and Ineffective
NOV 2016 UPDATE: Ok so its worse than I thought, I recently had to migrate another website on a server I control (from the operating system upwards) and still couldn’t get the GoDaddy Migration ...
WP Engine Vs GoDaddy (AKA Bye Bye WP Engine)
So my after a year at WP Engine, my blog has returned to GoDaddy: better the devil you know as they say. Jump to the WP Engine Vs GoDaddy performance tests. Why Did I Leave WP Engine? So why did I le ...
Pageok Error on GoDaddy Hosting
Recently while migrating a WordPress Website to GoDaddy I was presented with a blank page that simply said pageok. I was confounded briefly until I realised that while the domain name I entered was d ...
Redirect Old Website Domain to New Domain Keeping Folder Path Structure with Web.Config
Apologies for the obscenely long post title but I wanted to make sure I got all the keywords in that people might search for. Why you may ask? Well because I had a hell of a time getting an answer t ...
Plesk dbg_entries.myd Huge File Size
During some recent house keeping on our web server, I found that a lot of hard drive space (9GB) was being eaten up by a MySQL database in the form of a file called dbg_entries.MYD within the Plesk bi ...
WP-Engine Premium WordPress Hosting (MediaTemple Alternative)
Good bye MediaTemple! I’d like to say its been fun but unfortunately its been a disaster and I’m very happy to say WP Engine has been great so far (full review of them below). In May 201 ...
Testing WordPress Live Domain without Changing DNS
As any developers that have used WordPress for a website rebuild know, switching the domain name for the WordPress website and then updating the domains DNS to point to the new site is a clunky proces ...
Fixing Uncommon Plesk for Windows Problems
I started this thread as getting answers to problems with Plesk for Windows is problematic to say the least and I given how often I find bugs in Plesk, I refuse to pay $75 for a support incident every ...
Parallels Plesk 11.5 to 12 Upgrade Problems
After recently upgrading a Windows 2008 R2 web server from Parallels 11.5 to Parallels 12, I ran in to a series of fairly serious issues that I thought I would document here in the hopes that it might ...