Posts Tagged ‘VPS’

WordPress asks for connection info during upgrade.

After migrating all of my sites to the VPS, I noticed WP auto upgrade asks me for FTP login every time I upgrade a plugin. I was a bit puzzled at first because I have never seen that before, and the upgrade process is dramatically slower this way. After googling, I realized that all the [...]

finding the perfect Virtual Private Server (VPS)

I’ve been searching for a cheap VPS for some of the projects I’m working on. I needed an affordable plan… (by that I mean CHEAP! <$20) with great stability and reasonable support. This sounds almost impossible to pull off… even in today’s world. Most popular shared plans cost more than $20… But wait, introducing Unmanaged [...]

installing APC & uploadprogress on CentOS 5 [updated]

First, we need the pecl command so we can download and install APC from the repositories. I use the “remi” repo to give me the latest packages, so use “–enablerepo=remi” if you have it installed. yum install php-pear But, this will not run on its own, we need the following package for the phpize command: [...]