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Jan 12 2021

Cloud technologies and AWS for startups: Tips based on our experience as a startup from India

Given the promising outlook of cloud computing, start building expertise around cloud computing technologies by choosing one or more of the leading brands: Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, Alibaba Cloud. All of them have special packages for startups with liberal credits to learn, try new ideas. If AWS, follow the course roadmap prescribed as part of AWS certifications while joining as AWS Partner. As a Registered AWS Partner (free tier), you will learn about cloud technologies while nurturing your skills as a consultant/developer. We are a Registered Consulting Partner.

AWS Registered Partner

For India, a great way to avail of free credit from AWS (5000$) and DigitalOcean (1000$) is to signup for the StartupIndia program and gain DPIIT (also called DIPP) recognition.

Point taken that DIPP recognition has its own criterion of being incorporated as a private limited company or registered as a partnership firm or a limited liability partnership. This might not be suitable for newbies or those who prefer to be freelancers in true spirit. Now, Any startup (not just registered with StartupIndia or DIPP recognized) can apply for the AWS Activate Founders program and subject to meeting their conditions be granted 1350$ AWS credit (1,000 USD in AWS credits, valid for two years, and $350 USD in AWS Developer Support credits valid for one year). One can apply for both, (possibility to avail  $100,000 in AWS Activate credits).

AWS credit for startups under StartupIndia

Simultaneously, consider partnering with technology companies like WPEngine for developing state-of-the-art websites powered by WordPress (WP Engine is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency). We are a WPEngine Agency Partner. For agencies and end-users, it perhaps makes more sense to opt for such hosting solutions that take care of most back end technology stuff. Agencies stay focused on creating content as part of generating a great client experience; clients stay focused on their core work which is not maintaining servers like AWS. WP Engine’s technology improves site speed, while providing the intelligence to make it even faster. Tools like Local + WP Engine Connect make WP Engine relevant for hard core developers too.

Written by Rajeev Bagra · Categorized: Blog

Jan 08 2021

Hostinger: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION SALE

Source: Hostinger Team, dated Jan 7, 2021

Launched today the New Year’s Resolution Sale running until the 28th of February 2021.
Up to 80% OFF WordPress plans! WordPress Hosting Single Plan + free domain starting at $1.59.

And there is more – For our audiences additional 7% off web hosting with coupon code NY2021.


Here is our review of Hostinger at DigitalSplendid.Host.

 

Written by Rajeev Bagra · Categorized: News

Jan 07 2021

Plesk Hosting Stack on Ubuntu: Three websites per instance with plans starting 5$ per month on Amazon Lightsail and a demo of migration with free Migrate Guru plugin

Launch three websites after creating a Plesk Ubuntu instance on AWS Lightsail with plans starting at 5$ per month. This post will also include a demo of migration of an existing WordPress here using Migrate Guru plugin.

Login to Lightsail dashboard
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

 

Plans starting with 5$ per month. Three domains can be used for launching websites per instance.

plesk ubuntu wordpress instance limit on lightsail

 In case you intend to connect with FTP for files access, make sure to open ports 20-22, 49152-65535 under Networking. They are blocked by default. I have opened them as intend to migrate another WordPress instance/website to this using Migrate Guru plugin that needs FTP details as part of migration process.

Make sure to reboot after making changes under networking.
It is important to add a static ip right at this stage.
Reboot after adding a new static ip.
Type sudo plesk login to access login url to set first time username and password for Plesk dashboard from where the proposed three websites will be managed.

Add domains under Websites & Domains.

Update A records of the domain name under DNS. For this demo, NameCheap.

From WordPress menu, install a fresh WordPress instance.

Migrating to the above WordPress instance using free Migrate Guru plugin

Install Migrate Guru plugin on WordPress website which to be migrated.

Will be using FTP option.

For destination URL, entering https://digitalsplendid.work as SSL activated earlier from the Plesk dashboard.

 

Migration process complete.

One of the hurdles I faced while migrating from a Bitnami application (under AWS Lightsail) is inability to add new plugins with this error message:

Installation failed: Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable. 

Here is the solution:

So, I address this issue for digitalsplendid.xyz.

Bitnami WordPress migration error

Made a search with “Bitnami” on wp-config.php file and removed the line that has a code starting with define. After that, I could upload new plugins (as well update existing plugins).

 

Written by Rajeev Bagra · Categorized: Blog

Dec 03 2020

NameCheap: 100% off for the first month on monthly plan and 30-day money back guarantee

Browse securely on your desktop/tab/smartphone when on World Wide Web. Keep your personal and financial details secure. They are offering new customers 100 percent free first month subscription for the monthly subscriptions. Also 30-day money back guarantee for all the plans (3 yr, 1 yr, monthly).

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Written by Rajeev Bagra · Categorized: News

Nov 30 2020

Accessing remote website files of your cPanel shared hosting using File Zilla: NameCheap case study while using free version of UpdraftPlus backup plugin

At times accessing remote files becomes a necessity using FTP. For instance while Forgot Password option on WordPress website is an easier way to retrieve password, yet at times, it might not work. Making changes to functions.php file under activated theme folder then is a definitive solution. We keep limited to accessing remote files for this video.

Once FileZilla is installed, in case you face hurdle regarding knowing what to enter into Host, User Name fields, you should get in touch with the support. In my case for the above video, it is NameCheap Support that by my experience provides stellar support over chat/ticket.

Now, the motivation for accessing remote files/server for WooSplendid.com was to complete properly the migration process initiated using free version of UpdraftPlus backup plugin. (It is only later that I found that free UpdraftPlus is only for backup and not exactly for migration. Going forward, I would recommend Migrate Guru, free migration plugin).

The migration process with UpdraftPlus is through WordPress admin dashboard. You take backup of the five files for complete backup.

Free version can be installed directly from WordPress admin dashboard.

In my case, it is already installed.

UpDraft backup plugin demo

Now, we need to move to the WP admin dashboard of the website where we intend to migrate. I assume that an instance of WordPress website is already installed which can be a new instance or any existing WordPress website which will be given a fresh look with the migrated files.

You need to install free version of UpdraftPlus plugin on this WordPress website as well.

Now, there are two options to upload backup files. If file size is small, Upload Backup Files process may well underwent swiftly from the WordPress admin dashboard. Actually, this is the easy way. But if the file size is large and your hosting memory/configuration not sufficient, the way recommended is through FTP.

What might happen is you face hurdle uploading Uploads file in particular as this is the largest file in size (images posted on posts/pages go to this file). As happened on the screenshot, I could not upload Uploads file. That led to text contents, plugins, and theme well showing but posts and pages without images. For the Uploads file, I took recourse to FTP option. In fact once you are comfortable using FTP, it is better to upload all the five files through FTP.

While as earlier mentioned, MIgrate Guru instead of free UpdraftPlus should be chosen for migration, yet I could manage the redirecting error (not sure if there are any other issues that still there) that was the result of using the free UpdraftPlus plugin after migration. Here is the thread.

Written by Rajeev Bagra · Categorized: Blog · Tagged: FTP access for shared hosting NameCheap, NameCheap support review, remote file access using FileZilla

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