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WPMU DEV Hosting

The technical documentation for our managed hosting services.

  1. 1. Getting Started

    1. 1.1 Go Live Checklist
    2. 1.2 About Free Sites
    3. 1.3 Hosting Buyout
    4. 1.4 Creating a New Site
    5. 1.5 Migrating An Existing Site
    6. 1.6 Getting FTP Credentials From Your Host
    7. 1.7 Connect a Site
    8. 1.8 Cloning a Site
    9. 1.9 Restoring a Deleted Site
    10. 1.10 WordPress Multisite
    11. 1.11 Locations & Regions
    12. 1.12 Plans & Usage Limits
    13. 1.13 Modifying Size and Type Limits
    14. 1.14 WPMU DEV Server Error Pages
    15. 1.15 System Information
    16. 1.16 Getting .htaccess Support
    17. 1.17 Getting nginx.conf Support

  2. 2. Overview

    1. 2.1 Domains
    2. 2.2 Plan
    3. 2.3 Region
    4. 2.4 SFTP/SSH
    5. 2.5 Management Tools
    6. 2.6 Backups
    7. 2.7 Analytics
    8. 2.8 Hosting Support

  3. 3. Domains

    1. 3.1 Domains Overview
    2. 3.2 Adding Domains
    3. 3.3 Registrar guides
    4. 3.4 Domains Support

  4. 4. WPMU DEV SSL

    1. 4.1 Types of SSL Certificates
    2. 4.2 FAQs, Errors & Troubleshooting

  5. 5. SFTP & SSH

    1. 5.1 SFTP and SSH users
    2. 5.2 Creating SFTP/SSH Users
    3. 5.3 Connection Info
    4. 5.4 SFTP Sync
    5. 5.5 SSH Tunneling
    6. 5.6 Creating SSH Keys

  6. 6. Tools

    1. 6.1 Password Protection
    2. 6.2 Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    3. 6.3 Multisite
    4. 6.4 PHP Version
    5. 6.5 Database
    6. 6.6 Files
    7. 6.7 Object Cache
    8. 6.8 Static Server Cache
    9. 6.9 Reset wp-config
    10. 6.10 Migrate Existing Site
    11. 6.11 Bruteforce Attack Protection
    12. 6.12 New Relic Monitoring
    13. 6.13 Blackfire Profiler
    14. 6.14 Reset WP

  7. 7. Backups

    1. 7.1 Hosting Backups
    2. 7.2 Incremental Backups
    3. 7.3 Manual Backups
    4. 7.4 Restoring from Backup
    5. 7.5 Exporting Backups
    6. 7.6 Snapshot Plugin
    7. 7.7 Getting Support

  8. 8. Analytics

    1. 8.1 Live Stats
    2. 8.2 Storage
    3. 8.3 Traffic
    4. 8.4 Server Analytics vs GA/Jetpack
    5. 8.5 Understanding Bandwidth

  9. 9. Staging

    1. 9.1 Staging Best Practices
    2. 9.2 Setting up a Staging Site
    3. 9.3 Staging Options
    4. 9.4 Settings
    5. 9.5 Troubleshooting & Notes

  10. 10. Logs

    1. 10.1 Logs Overview
    2. 10.2 PHP Error Log
    3. 10.3 Access Log
    4. 10.4 Slow Log
    5. 10.5 WAF Log
    6. 10.6 Audit Log
    7. 10.7 Logs Support

  11. 11. Emails

    1. 11.1 Email Policies and Limitations
    2. 11.2 Email Accounts
    3. 11.3 Connecting Email Accounts
    4. 11.4 Email Forwarding
    5. 11.5 Using SMTP To Send Emails
    6. 11.6 IP on a RBL Blocklist?
    7. 11.7 Email Support

  12. 12. WordPress Multisite

    1. 12.1 Why Subdomains Are Discouraged
    2. 12.2 Wildcard SSL for Multisite

  13. 13. Enterprise Hosting

    1. 13.1 Code Audits and Guidelines
    2. 13.2 Bitbucket and Version Control
    3. 13.3 Development Environments
    4. 13.4 Change Management Procedures

  14. 14. Storage

    1. 14.1 Storage Overview
    2. 14.2 About System Storage
    3. 14.3 Backups Storage
    4. 14.4 Staging Storage
    5. 14.5 Before You Upgrade

  15. 15. Cloning Sites

    1. 15.1 Accessing the Cloning Feature
    2. 15.2 Clone an Existing Site
    3. 15.3 Clone from a Template
    4. 15.4 Migrate a Site to a New Region
    5. 15.5 Troubleshooting

  16. 16. How WPMU DEV Credits Work

    1. 16.1 Hosting & Membership Plans
    2. 16.2 Your Hosting Credits
    3. 16.3 Adding Additional Sites

  17. 17. Allowed & Disabled Functions & Commands

    1. 17.1 wp-config.php Constants Protection
    2. 17.2 Allowed SSH Commands
    3. 17.3 Disabled functions - php.ini
    4. 17.4 Disabled functions - PHP CLI
    5. 17.5 Modifying PHP with .user.ini

  18. 18. Known 3rd-Party Issues

    1. 18.1 Query Monitor
    2. 18.2 MyISAM Database Storage Engine