Do You Support Transactional Email Providers Other Than SendGrid?
Yes! Just because it’s not integrated into the dashboard like SendGrid, that doesn’t mean it won’t work. Any transactional email service which connects to your site via a plugin will work on vCanopy powered servers. These are two popular choices for SMTP plugins: FluentSMTP and WP Mail SMTP.
I Use Cloudflare, and When I Ping My Site, My Server IP Doesn’t Show Up
That means you have CloudFlare’s DNS Proxy (orange cloud) activated. When a record is orange clouded, it means traffic to that hostname is running through CloudFlare. That include Masking your IP Caching SSL certificates on the edge servers (you still need a vCanopy SSL, which must be provisioned BEFORE you set orange cloud proxy) Only A, […]
WP-Cron and vCanopy’s GP-Cron
WP-Cron is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks such as checking for updates and publishing scheduled post. At vCanopy, we have GP-Cron, which does the same thing, but at the server level. Unlike WP-Cron, which relies on people visiting your website, you can set it to run at specific time intervals, which assures that things […]
Cloudflare’s CDN and Upload Limitations
Cloudflare offer a great free service, and a part of that service is their CDN. This is available to all plans, including the free tier. If, however, you are using Cloudflares CDN and are trying to upload large files to your website, you may run into an issue with their upload size (HTTP POST request […]
The wp-config.php Location at vCanopy
To keep your WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php) secure, at vCanopy it’s stored one level above your websites /htdocs folder. Your wp-config.php file contains your database username and password along with other information about your website. We keep it hidden and protected. You can find it on your server here (site.url = your websites domain name): /var/www/site.url/ […]
Migrating Websites Away from vCanopy
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Procedure for Migrating via Plugins Plugin Recommendations GP-CLI Migration Scripts Overview Using GP Migrate Away CLI Introduction If you build websites for clients, at some point you will likely need to move a site from vCanopy to another host. We understand as agencies you will need to cater to your users, […]