Tag: Backups
WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems on the Internet. Due to its popularity, it is also the target of many hackers. We’re here to show you our top 5 recommendations on how to secure your WordPress site based on issues we’ve come across.
How Do I Secure My Linux Server?
Our last article on Ubuntu security suggestions touched on the importance of passwords, user roles, console security, and firewalls. We continue with our last article and while the recommendations below are not unique to Ubuntu specifically (nearly all discussed are considered best practice for any Linux VPS server or dedicated server) but they should be an important consideration in securing your server.
Common Postgres Tasks on CentOS 7
This guide walks you through some common tasks surrounding a Postgres server. In this tutorial, we’ll cover installing Postgres, creating new databases and users, backing up databases, and more! Let’s dig in!
How to Work With PostgreSQL Databases
Table of Contents
Listing databases
Dump a database
Dumping all databases
Dump Grants
Delete or Drop a Database
Delete a Grant
Restore a Database
Restore Grant
Configuring Amazon S3 via WHM/cPanel
What is Amazon S3?
Amazon S3 stands for Simple Storage Service and is the cloud platform provided by Amazon for easily storing and downloading files. WHM can sync with this service to store your backups on a totally separate network.
Create a Cron Task in Ubuntu 16.04
Cron jobs are an incredibly useful Linux tool aimed at saving you time by scheduling tasks within your server. A programmed cron task will execute commands within a script by the minute, day, week or month. They can be scheduled to do many tasks including backing up your server’s files nightly, updating inventory orders in a database or even compressing files for migrating. Repetitive tasks become a cinch when incorporating a cron job. While there are numerous ways to run a cron task, we will be using the crontab option that is inherent within Ubuntu to set up a nightly backup of our website.
An Overview of Managed WordPress
WordPress is open source software for building unique and powerful websites! It is quickly becoming the easiest and most popular way to create blogs, business sites, portfolios, forums, memberships, and e-commerce websites on your dedicated server.
Using Object Storage for cPanel Backups
Object Storage is simply the easiest, most cost effective and secure backup solution for your data!
In this article you will learn how to backup your WordPress database using the wp-cli tool. Knowing how to backup your database is a critical skill to have when running a WordPress site. All your posts, pages, and more live in your database; keeping backups is critical.
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