Tag: Ubuntu 16

Ubuntu wordpress command-line interface. Beauty of command-line. Flexibility of command-line. Speed of command-line. Power of command-line. Configuring, administering, correcting errors, upgrading and everything else should be done by the command-line from your mobile, tablet or PC. Command-line saves you time and money.

The command-line interface or command language interpreter – CLI – is also known under the name command-line user interface, console user interface and character user interface – CUI -. This means no graphic. Just characters on a screen. The command-line provides you with a concise and powerful tool to work with Ubuntu and WordPress. No matter how slow your connection is the command line is always lightning fast.

Ubuntu WordPress command-line tools gives you speed and power

Some of the advantages of managing Ubuntu and WordPress by the command-line:

• Saves you time and money.
• Requires very little  bandwidth.
• Is almost always lightning fast.
• Easier to automate through scripting.
• Requires fewer resources.
• Concise and powerful.
• Expert friendly.
• Gives you a good and beautiful feeling.

SSH client

An SSH client is essential for managing the JeOS WordPress VPS server. Pretty much everything related to Ubuntu is done with the SSH client. In TBT we have been using VSSH for many years and made this our preferred SSH client.  WP-CLI is in most cases also running in the SSH client windows.

 

Read more about the VSSH client for iPhone

 

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WP-CLI

WP-CLI is the free tool for managing WordPress without a web browser. WP-CLI has numerous add ons.

More about WP-CLI

Gravity Forms WP-CLI plugin

Gravity forms is one of the best forms plugins. Gravity forms has a large number of plugins.

Manage Gravity form using command-line

WordShell

You can upgrade 100 or 1.000 WordPress sites by typing a single command in WordShell. Batch manage sites and save heaps of time. WordShell is not based on PHP and does not require WordPress to work. This provides many opertunites that’s not available with WP-CLI

Compare WordShell to WP-cli

Read more about WordShell 

No thanks, I prefer cPanel and other GUI’s

If you decide that command-line is not your way thats OK to. cPanel is rated one of the best GUI’s to administer Linux and WordPress.

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DIY: How-to set up Ubuntu 16 AWS EC2 with external RDS MySQL database and external ElastiCache memcached server. The title is quite cryptic on purpose to tell you that this is somewhat different from the standard WordPress VPS where everything depends on a single Linux server.

This combination gives you a fast, stable and affordable VPS server based on the concept of JeOS. You will have a budget friendly VPS server that will scale to what you need. Only limited of your needs and your budget. It contains only what WordPress needs to run and nothing else. JeOS is in this context a paradigm for optimizing your operating system to fit the needs of WordPress.

In this DIY tutorial you will learn how-to set up WordPress with the following configuration:

• WordPress
• SSL – https:// with certificate from CloudFlare
• Amazon AWS EC2 VPS server
• Ubuntu 16 LTS
• Apache
• PHP 7
• External Amazon RDS MySQL database server. MySQL version 5.7
• External Amazon ElastiCache memcached server
• Google PageSpeed module
• Using Google gMail or Google Apps for Work as SMTP server
• Automatic update of Ubuntu every day
• Timezone set to Oslo, Norway
• CloudFlare CDN, performance and security
• Configure the Amazon Web Services firewall to only allow connections on port 443 and 22 from selected IP adresses
• Protecting WordPress admin section using .htaccess with IP rules
• Forwarding all non-SSL traffic to the httpS:// version of wordpress
• Automatic backup of WordPress
• Backup of Ubuntu

 

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Ubuntu 16 AWS EC2 initial activation of the VPS server

After signing up and activating your account with Amazon Web Services it’s time to chose the right image.

 

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Buy this VPS server preconfigured for USD 180,- $

This page is a DIY guide. When you run into problems or just want to get this server production ready as soon as possible. No problem. We will prepare it for you if you pay us for the time we spend configuring it. You get a server with 1 GB of memory, 30 GB SSD disk and 1 processor. Want another hardware configuration? No problem. Just contact us. One hour of support using email, phone, FaceTime and TeamViewer is included. Do you need additional work? No problem. We charge USD 95,- $ pr hour outside Norway.  Check out the TBT profile on TrustPilot to see what others thinks of TBT.
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How to migrate your WordPress to the JeOS VPS with Migrator

Moving your current WordPress site to this VPS server is usually a straight forward process. All you need is the Migrator module. This module makes it easy to move your site and even change the domain name to a new and better URL.

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JeOS is pronounced juice. Its means Just Enough Operating System. Thats just what this is about. The idea is to run only what WordPress needs and nothing else. JeOS is in this context a paradigm for optimizing your operating system to fit the needs of WordPress. We are also lifting weight of the VPS server by moving services into the cloud.

A stripped down and cloudish VPS server

By unloading the Ubuntu VPS server with as much as possible, you will run a VPS server that requires less resources than the traditional WordPress VPS server. This is because many of the core services are moved to different cloud services. By cloudifying your WordPress VPS server things get simpler, easier, faster, budget minded, faster, more robust and easier to troubleshoot because you can isolate the different processes.

We recommend the JeOS concept when running WordPress

Following the JeOs concept makes your Ubuntu VPS smaller, faster and potentially more secure. There is fewer access points for hackers. Fewer possible points of failure. The JeOs WordPress concept has many advantages. This is some of them:

• Needs less memory
• Needs less CPU
• Needs less storage
• Needs less bandwidth due to CloudFlare CDN
• Less expensive. Amazon AWS Charges for what you use.
• Potentially faster
• Potentially safer
• Potentially fewer points of failure
• Easier to upgrade
• Easier to migrate
• External MySQL server using RDS
• External memcached server using ElastiCache
• External CDN – Content Delivery Network – using CloudFlare
• External minify and other optimizing techniques using CloudFlare
• External origin network optimizer using CloudFlare Railgun results in an average 200% additional performance increase. (Add-on)
• Easier troubleshooting because processes running in the cloud can be isolated.
• Administration of Ubuntu using a SSH client on your mobile, tablet or PC
• Administration of WordPress with your mobile, tablet or PC using WP-cli
• Administration of WordPress with your mobile, tablet or PC using WordShell
• Almost unlimited scalable
• No graphical admin panel that will drain memory, cpu, storage and other computing resources, create points of failure and require license.
• Easier and faster move to Ubuntu 18 LTS or Ubuntu 20 LTS in due time. The Ubuntu 16 LTS distributions is coming to it’s End of Life after a number of year. At that time it should be quite easy to set up a new JeOS EC2 Ubuntu 18 LTS or Ubuntu 20 LTS VPS server from scratch. Then use UpdraftPlus or another backup plugin to move WordPress to a fresh new server. For a number or reasons are we recommending to set up a new, fresh JeOS VPS server in stead of upgrading the current outdated server.
• Google Tag Manager to handle tags from AdWords, Google Analytics, Bing AdCenter, Facebook and most other tags.
• The Google PageSpeed module uses ElastiCache to take load of the VPS server and speed up everything by optimizing.

 

You can use this series of How-to’s to set up your own JeOS server or order a prebuilt server from us. We are also available if you need help. There is also lot’s of freelancer ready to help you.

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