In this video tutorial I will walk through the steps to add swap file to your server instance. What is a swap file? A swap file is a mechanism to increases your servers available memory and can safe-guard your application from crashing. For example If you have an AWS Lightsail instance with 1GB memory and …
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In this video I wanted to show you a possible fix for an issue you may run into when using Lightsail with the WordPress install by Bitnami. For those that use the popular Lightsail plans at $3.5 or $5 instances and use the WordPress image managed by Bitnami you may have experienced the instance becomes …
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In this video I will show you how to disable the WordPress Cron feature and instead use the System Cron or Task schedular to improve performance. The Cron or task schedular feature in WordPress called the wp-cron runs every time a page loads on your website. It has to do this because it doesn’t constantly …
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In this video I will show you how to increase the PHP File Upload limit so that you can upload files larger than the default setting that came with your installation. This is a common issue when setting up WordPress on your own and might be less of an issue if you are on a …
In this video I will show you the basic commands necessary to edit files using the VI Editor. That is the editor that I use in most of my tutorials and there have been questions around how I performed some of the steps pertaining to updating files. Many times I don’t talk about the exact …
In this video, I show you another way to create a system user on your Lightsail server. I had recently made a video on creating an alias user for providing someone else access to a Lightsail server. This video will slightly modify those steps. Instead of an alias user, we will setup a completely separate …
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