Knowledge base & Feature handbook
All information related to the various platforms–such as WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento 2, and Laravel–we support, including information about our own Servebolt platform
First of all do you need to have SSH access on both machines that you want to set up authentication with. I will describe how to do this mostly manually with command prompt / terminal. Local machine Log in with SSH to the machine you want to be authenticated. From […]
If you see 404 file not found errors with @2x in the file name, in either your site’s loading waterfall or the logfiles – you should add this block of code first in you .htaccess file. When retina.ja tries to fetch images that do not exist, a full version of […]
The WordPress xmlrpc.php endpoint can be misused as en endpoint for brute force attacks. If you do not use xmlrpc.php for any integrations, you might as well disable it completely. Adding these lines to your .htaccess file will disallow access to the endpoint for everyone. Edit your public/.htaccess file and […]
Updating a static file (JavaScript, CSS etc) but it’s not visible in the front- end? This article shows you how you solve this issue.
Our plugin, Servebolt Optimizer, enables you to: Enable our best practise database optimisations for WordPress and WooCommerce Read the errorlog directly from the WordPress Admin Enable the Full Page Cache How to use it with WP CLI Install the plugin wp plugin install servebolt-optimizer –activate [–network] You should now be able […]
WordPress by default is blazingly fast at Servebolt, but there are some things you can do to your WordPress site that optimizes it even further. Consider this some basic WordPress hygiene. Database indexes In the examples we have used the standard wp_ prefix for table names, this may differ between […]
This article gives insight into some basic adjusments you should make to your code, database and possibly workflow, that will result in improved performance when your application runs on our servers. By going through these few steps a websites performance can changes from being sluggish, to being snappy and fast. […]
Database Basic database preparation and maintenance Log in to PhpMyAdmin, and look at the tables overview for your database. All tables should be InnoDB or MEMORY. All MyISAM tables should be converted to InnoDB Run “Analyze tables” on all tables in your database.** This will force indexes to be rebuilt […]
Sometimes you need to update a URL in your database, like when you move your site to a new domain or when you’ve moved a site to and from a temporary staging URL. A very easy method of doing so is to use the command-line tool WP-CLI and its wp […]
We use WP-CLI a lot, and here is the most common WP-CLI commands we use in a cheat sheet. WP-CLI man pages Create admin user List all users: Replace all URLs in the database List plugins To get the status of all plugins Run Servebolt Optimizer Analyze tables Analyzing tables […]
The command line interface for WordPress – called WP CLI – is installed for all hosts on Servebolt and is available when you log in to your site with SSH. You can use WP CLI in the /public folder (where your site is) by running the wp command. The following commands […]
We include a daily backup of all files and databases for our clients. These backups are performed nightly and can be restored through our support, as described here: How do backups work at Servebolt. It’s also possible to do an instant manual WordPress site backup. This is recommended when performing […]
We offer two different ways to create copies of websites which you can use for staging, testing or migrations to other Bolts. The first solution is a custom script available on our Servebolt Bolts, the other is a solution within WordPress itself. Servebolt’s sitecopy script The main advantage of using […]
Indexing is a task that should always be run from the server side, instead of running it in your browser or via HTTP/HTTPS with wget or similar. If indexing runs directly on the server it spends the least possible amount of resources, and is not vulnerable to being interrupted by […]
All our servers are optimized and tuned for performance, and deliver much better performance than other hosting solutions. Because of this, the need for cache- aggregation an optimization plugins is reduced. Generally, you will experience that avoiding the use of performance-related plugins, and keeping the number of plugins to a […]
Congratulations on your decision to move or set up your WordPress site on Servebolt. Our performance specialists have a set of standard tasks when setting up or moving a site to Servebolt. These tasks are not secret, nor complicated. Follow this to-do list to make sure your WordPress is as […]
The best way to send email through WordPress is with an external mail server. This is because (dedicated) SMTP servers are usually better setup to avoid spam, using SPF, blacklists, port blocking and more. With an external SMTP server your emails are less likely to end up in your user’s […]
We currently are offering two different version to install WordPress on your Servebolt site. With WP-CLI The easiest method for installing WordPress is by connecting with SSH. We have pre-installed WP-CLI, a command line tool for WordPress on all Bolts. To install WordPress with WP-CLI you simply log on with […]
To use Klarna Checkout v3 with Cloudflare require some configuration in Cloudflare. Here is what you need to do.
The best way to update your URLs on our servers is with WP-CLI’s search-replace function. But if you have the Revolution Slider plugin activated you might’ve encountered that it breaks after a URL update. This happens because Revslider writes their URLs different than normal in their database tables. Here’s the […]