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WPMU DEV Hosting

The technical documentation for our managed hosting services.

  1. 1. Getting Started

    1. 1.1 About Free Sites
    2. 1.2 Creating a New Site
    3. 1.3 Migrating An Existing Site
    4. 1.4 Connect a Site
    5. 1.5 Cloning a Site
    6. 1.6 Locations & Regions
    7. 1.7 Plans & Usage Limits
    8. 1.8 WordPress Multisite
    9. 1.9 Modifying Size and Type Limits
    10. 1.10 Getting .htaccess Support
    11. 1.11 Getting nginx.conf Support
    12. 1.12 Restoring a Deleted Site
    13. 1.13 Customizing Error Pages
    14. 1.14 Bruteforce Attack Protection

  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
    2. 3.2 SSL, TLS & HTTPS
    3. 3.3 Adding Domains
    4. 3.4 Registrar guides
    5. 3.5 Domains Support

  4. 4. SFTP & SSH

    1. 4.1 SFTP and SSH users
    2. 4.2 Creating SFTP/SSH Users
    3. 4.3 Connection Info

  5. 5. Tools

    1. 5.1 Password Protection
    2. 5.2 Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    3. 5.3 Multisite
    4. 5.4 PHP Version
    5. 5.5 Database
    6. 5.6 Files
    7. 5.7 Object Cache
    8. 5.8 Static Server Cache
    9. 5.9 Reset wp-config
    10. 5.10 Migrate Existing Site

  6. 6. Backups

    1. 6.1 Hosting Backups
    2. 6.2 Incremental Backups
    3. 6.3 Manual Backups
    4. 6.4 Restoring from Backup
    5. 6.5 Exporting Backups
    6. 6.6 Snapshot Plugin
    7. 6.7 Getting Support

  7. 7. Analytics

    1. 7.1 Live Stats
    2. 7.2 Storage
    3. 7.3 Traffic
    4. 7.4 Server Analytics vs GA/Jetpack
    5. 7.5 Understanding Bandwidth

  8. 8. Staging

    1. 8.1 Setting up a staging site
    2. 8.2 Staging Options
    3. 8.3 Settings
    4. 8.4 Troubleshooting & Notes

  9. 9. Logs

    1. 9.1 Logs Overview
    2. 9.2 PHP Error Log
    3. 9.3 Access Log
    4. 9.4 Slow Log
    5. 9.5 WAF Log
    6. 9.6 Audit Log
    7. 9.7 Logs Support

  10. 10. Emails

    1. 10.1 Email Policies and Limitations
    2. 10.2 Email Accounts
    3. 10.3 Connecting Email Accounts
    4. 10.4 Email Forwarding
    5. 10.5 Using SMTP To Send Emails
    6. 10.6 Email Support

  11. 11. WordPress Multisite

    1. 11.1 Why Subdomains Are Discouraged
    2. 11.2 Wildcard SSL for Multisite

  12. 12. Enterprise Hosting

    1. 12.1 Code Audits and Guidelines
    2. 12.2 Bitbucket and Version Control
    3. 12.3 Development Environments
    4. 12.4 Change Management Procedures

  13. 13. Storage

    1. 13.1 Storage Overview
    2. 13.2 Backups and Staging
    3. 13.3 Before You Upgrade

  14. 14. Cloning Sites

    1. 14.1 What is cloning?
    2. 14.2 Clone an existing site
    3. 14.3 Clone from a template
    4. 14.4 Migrate a Site to a New Region
    5. 14.5 Troubleshooting

  15. 15. How WPMU DEV Hosting Credits Work

    1. 15.1 Hosting & Membership Plans
    2. 15.2 Your Hosting Credits
    3. 15.3 Adding Additional Sites

  16. 16. Allowed & Disabled Functions & Commands

    1. 16.1 wp-config.php Constants Protection
    2. 16.2 Allowed SSH Commands
    3. 16.3 Disabled functions - php.ini
    4. 16.4 Disabled functions - PHP CLI
    5. 16.5 Modifying PHP with .user.ini