Tips and tricks by Brian Shim for web developers, bloggers, and WordPress users
Tips and tricks for web hosts like Gridpane, Siteground, GoDaddy, and more!
I had a situation where I updated the PHP version in cPanel from 7.3 to 8.0, but on the actual server it was still at 7.3. No matter what I did in cPanel, the PHP version wouldn’t change on my actual server! I called up the host, GoDaddy, and they quickly found the problem. It … Read more
Wherever you host your websites, you should have automatic regular backups made at the server level (in addition to other methods). GoDaddy offers an automatic backup service called “Essential Website Backup” which backs up your site to a separate cloud server; you could even use it to back up a site not hosted on GoDaddy. … Read more
If you are getting a “502 Bad Gateway” blue screen of death on Siteground, and your site is a WordPress site, and it is not going away by itself, here’s how to fix it. The error message claims it’s a temporary error, but when it happened to me, I waited an hour and a half … Read more
Siteground is my “go-to” hosting provider for my clients. Their servers are reliable and fast, by shared hosting standards. But, I had one site on Siteground that gave s a “500 Internal Server Error” every few months when I tried to log into the admin of a client’s WordPress site. Or, sometimes I could log … Read more
There may be some instances where you want to restart PHP on your GoDaddy shared server. For example, you might want to do this if your server is misbehaving, i.e., serving HTML files but not PHP. I had a case where the site was showing the error “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the … Read more
It’s not commonly known, but it’s super easy to move a website hosted on SiteGround to another SiteGround account. You do not need to do a traditional migration of files and the database! If your DNS is at SiteGround, it takes only a few clicks in fact! If your DNS isn’t at SiteGround, you should … Read more
After years of being a satisfied customer of Siteground, I finally had to find a new host because my sites were outgrowing their GoGeek shared hosting plan. I guess that’s a good problem to have. Although I love and still recommend Siteground for their shared hosting, and I knew they offered VPS hosting, I wanted … Read more
I have a client who was having chronic server downtime on GoDaddy. A customer support rep pointed me to the Resource Usage page on cPanel which showed the CPU was maxed out. When I investigated the Apache logs, I discovered that several of the sites on the server were under DDoS (distributed denial of service) … Read more
If you look up how to increase your PHP max file size, most sources will tell you to change the upload_max_filesize setting in your php.ini file. Well, I did that and it still wasn’t working for me on my client’s shared GoDaddy Linux hosting. So, I called them up and found the un-publicized “secret” way to … Read more
Here’s how to host multiple sites on your EC2 instance running the Amazon Linux AMI. Remember to make a backup of your instance before proceeding. Assign a Static IP Address The first thing you should do, if you haven’t already, is assign a static IP address to your EC2 instance. You can do this in the Amazon … Read more