10 things you need to know about leaving shared hosting

Jonathan Perlman

August 17, 2014

Montreal, Quebec

@jpurpleman

jonathan@purpleman.org

http://purpleman.org/wcmtl

+ 10 years asa web developerat Dawson College

+ 6 years teachingthe World Wide Weband Microsoft Office

+ 4 years using and learning WordPress

I’m not a Linux network administrator

I’m not a security expert

Jonathan Perlman - WordCamp Montreal 2014 August 17, 2014

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Restrictions

Software limitations

Can’t modify configurations

Resources

CPU intense

Noisy neighbors

Reliability

Downtime

Lack of support

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UnmanagedManaged

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Managed

Shared hosting for WordPress

Support knows WordPress

Relevantly easy and hands off

Costly in $$$

Unmanaged

Learning curve

Very DIY

“ Painful “

Costly in time

WPEngine http://wpengine.com

WebSynthesis http://websynthesis.com

Flywheel http://getflywheel.com

Page.ly https://pagely.com

Pressable http://pressable.com

SiteGround http://siteground.com

Digital Ocean http://www.digitalocean.com

Linode https://www.linode.com

Media Templehttp://mediatemple.net/webhosting/

vps/developer/

Site5 http://www.site5.com

RAM CPUDisk

purpleman.org

• Photo clients

• Personal use

• Ram: 1 Gig

• CPU: 1 Core

• Disk: 30 Gigs

snookercanada.ca

• Snooker players

• Media relations

• Ram: 2 Gigs

• CPU: 2 Cores

• Disk: 40 Gigs

dawsoncollege.qc.ca

• + 10,000 students

• + 1,000 faculty / staff

• Ram: 16 Gigs

• CPU: 4 Core

• Disk: 128 Gigs

Linux Web

PHP Db

CloudFlare

https://www.cloudflare.com

Easydns

https://www.easydns.com

DNS with domain or hosting provider

Local “Hosts” file

Stable

CentOS 7

Supported till 2024

Bleeding edge

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Supported till 2019

cPanel

www.cpanel.net

Parallels Plesk

sp.parallels.com/

products/plesk/

ZPanel

www.zpanelcp.com

Text Editor

vi / nano

File System

cd & ls

cp & mv & rm

Permissions

chmod & chown

Process Management

ps & top

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

Stan Lee

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All powerful server administrator

Terminal Root User = WordPress Admin User

Constantly targeted and attacked

New servers are under attack in hours

Change it’s password

Make it a super secure password!

Deny Root from remote login

Create a non-admin user account

Assign admin rights with VISUDO

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-centos-6

Generating keys

http://kb.siteground.com/how_to_generate_an_ssh_key_on_windows_using_putty/

http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/make-passwordless-ssh-connection-osx-10-9-

mavericks-linux/

Set up keys on the server Login via SSH keys

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2

Block everything

Allow specific ports from specific IPs

22 – SSH

80 – Web

443 – Secure Web

3306 – MySql

Allowing for dynamic IPs

Use hit count rules

https://github.com/jpurpleman/linux

http://cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-iptables-examples.html

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yum update for CentOS

apt-get update for Ubuntu

Apache or Nginx

Use virtual hosting for multiple domains

Create development domains

.htaccess is off by default in Apache

Change “AllowOverride” to All

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-centos-6

php.ini

allow_url_fopen

session.gc_maxlifetime

disable_functions

display_errors

post_max_size

memory_limit

max_execution_time

upload_max_filesize

.htaccess

php_value

upload_max_filesize

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php

MySql or MariaDB

Setup steps

Set a secure root user

Remove test database

Create web user with limited access

Create yourself a user with full access

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/a-basic-mysql-tutorial

Download and extract

Create the database

and a user

Set up wp-config.php

Run the install script

http://codex.wordpress.org/

Installing_WordPress

Hardening_WordPress

Changing_File_Permissions

Home directory

Root home directory

Configuration directory

Web files

Database

Automysqlbackuphttp://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/

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http://aws.amazon.com/backup-storage

http://mozy.com/product/solutions/

server-backup

https://www.jungledisk.com/

Google Apps for Business

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/

https://www.fastmail.fm

https://www.zoho.com/mail

https://www.pobox.com/

Uptime Robot

Pingdom

New Relic

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Get a virtual private server – call it professional development

Set it up

Play around – learn!

Edit your hosts file and point your domain to the server

Create a development WordPress site

Setup your WordPress site

Create a production WordPress site

Change the DNS!

You’re live!

Setting up and configuring SSL

2 Servers - Web & MySQL

Varnish / Memcache for caching

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/

https://www.linode.com/docs

http://www.youtube.com/user/TJsWebDev/

http://www.cyberciti.biz

http://www.rosehosting.com/blog

http://www.servermom.org

http://www.tecmint.com

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=digitalocean&uio=d4

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August 17, 2014Jonathan Perlman - WordCamp Montreal 2014

Questions

Thank you!

Jonathan Perlman

August 17, 2014

Montreal, Quebec

@jpurpleman

jonathan@purpleman.org

http://purpleman.org/wcmtl

10 things you need to know about leaving shared hosting

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