How to Migrate to vCanopy with Zero Downtime
You can absolutely migrate your websites to vCanopy and experience zero downtime. Below will help guide you from server creation to successful website migration, and also help you acquainted with different areas of our knowledge base. Once you have servers created and have learned the steps by migrating your first website over, it’s super quick […]
How to extract a subsite from a multisite and set it up as a regular WordPress install with AIO
All in One WP Migration (AIO) is an excellent plugin for moving a WordPress website from one place to another, and also for extracting a subsite from a WordPress multisite installation. In this article, we’ll look at how to extract a subsite and then recreate it on its own WordPress install – completely standalone and […]
Migrating MASSIVE WordPress Websites to vCanopy
We’ve migrated a lot of websites to our platform over the past few years, as have thousands of users. Some of these were massive websites. We’re talking 50GB websites and WaaS networks with 400+ subsites. We’ve migrated these types of websites successfully using both the All in One WP Migration plugin and the Migrate Guru […]
DNS Management and CNAMEs
If you’re hosting a website and don’t have access to manage the DNS, or if you manage hundreds of websites or a large multisite and need a way to handle DNS without manually changing records anytime to move to a new server with a new IP, you can use CNAMES to help solve this problem. […]
Working with the wp-config.php on vCanopy and an introduction to user-configs.php
Introduction Working with wp-config.php on vCanopy A quick intro to user-configs.php Editing user-configs.php Migrating to vCanopy and the wp-config.php file Cloning, Failover, and wp-config.php If you have a website that requires you to add custom code snippets to the wp-config.php file, on vCanopythese changes won’t persist when you migrate your website to a new server or clone […]
New Website Checklists
Introduction In this article, we’ll take a look at the things you’ll want to have in place when you’re launching a new website on vCanopy. In a nutshell, you’re going to want an SSL certificate, transactional email (for contact form submissions, etc), your security setup, caching, and your DNS records in place. The order in […]