Tag Archives: Tutorial

Transferring a WordPress site between hosts

Recently, we decided to switch our hosting provider due to issues relating to uptime and server speed. The entire process of transferring our WordPress installation between hosts was documented and turned into a video tutorial to aid others wishing to do the same thing. The tutorial is about 8 minutes long and covers everything from backing up the data to changing the DNS settings. The end benefit of using the technique demonstrated in the video is, your visitors will see absolutely no downtime as you transfer between hosts. 

Setting up a developmental web server

Developmental web-servers are a great method to test new website features or mockups without deploying the code on the live site. Internal testing ensures that users experience minimal disturbance while new features are coded. It also enables programmers to deploy iterations of a code and optimize for performance and stability. In this article, software such as XAMPP and Wamp will be used to create a personal server capable of handling PHP, ASP, HTML, MYSQL and FTP. Lastly, we will also take a look at how this server can be deployed on the internet through the use of Dynamic DNS services.