Thanks for all your support. Some of you may have noticed a little downtime. I invested a little professional expertise in the site and you should now see better performance and more site reliability and uptime. Special thanks to Gregory Morozov at upwork.com who quickly identified and resolved the following issues:
Convert PHP to php-fpm – for many reasons, but one is control over max php processes (I’ll use: service php7.2-fpm restart – if I need to restart php.)
Relaxed Wordfence triggers so users don’t get denied access
Dropped memory usage from 700+MB to 400MB
Fixed invalid Repos, other updates and maintenance.
We’ll monitor the site usage into the beginning of next week to see if we need to add more memory to the instance.
The pace of global cloud computing is continuing to grow exponentially. While Amazon still holds the lion’s share of cloud services, Google’s Cloud Platform has been growing at the fastest pace. In this article, we’ll first examine what makes the Google Cloud Platform different; provide you with a list of its components, solutions, and features; and finish up by discussing pricing.
Cloud Services trends and opinion
According to a Synergy Research Group study: “In terms of year-over-year growth, Google enjoys the lead at 162 percent, while Azure has grown by an even 100 percent. AWS is in fourth with a 53 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth rate.…
So my new favorite plugin for WordPress is WP-Filebase; a free, easy way to upload files into WordPress that makes those files easy for others to download. While the plugin seems a little daunting at first to manage, it pretty much follows the typical methods other plugins employ such as shortcode. While editing a page or post there is a WP-Filebase button next to the other editing buttons such as “insert link” or “Italic”. Once the basic concepts are mastered, it becomes a pleasure to create categories, upload, and post files for download. There are a ton of other features to categorize, post and track hits with WP-Filebase if you want.
One issue I encountered when using WP-Filebase is that by default the upload size for files in php and WordPress are pretty small, and that the upload size for my entire site had to be increased. When I tried to upload a file with WP-Filebase of any size larger than 2MB, the upload would quit and fail without much information or error messages. When you’re expecting to see “File added”, and instead the page just refreshes without an error, it can be a little frustrating. Here are the steps I took to increase the file upload size:
Login to an ssh session on the server running WordPress.
Before you edit php.ini, it’s always a good idea to make a copy of the original file with a command of something like:
Below this paragraph are the php settings to find and change in the vi editor. To find the settings, it can be useful for vi to be in command mode (the vi editor starts in command mode by default). While in command mode, hit the forward slash key /, and then type the keyword, then hit [enter/return]. The vi editor will jump to the first instance of the keyword it finds. You can then simply hit the n key to cycle to the next instance of that keyword. Then hit the i key to go into insertion mode. Now you can hit the delete/backspace keys and use your arrow keys to edit the settings. When you’re done editing, hit the Escape key, then the : key, then type wq, then hit enter. There are ton of other shortcuts, tips and cheats for vi you can find here: http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html .
After making these changes, I wanted to be sure they stuck if apache restarts. I did this by restarting apache and then viewing the php settings coming from the web browser itself.
