Going Live: Changing Your Site's Domain
When you are ready to make you site live on your actual domain, do the following. Changing Your Primary Domain Begin by logging into the...

Configuring SFTP and Using SSH Keys in Transmit
If you've never used SSH keys to authenticate when connecting over SFTP, the process can look a bit intimidating. Don't worry, it's actua...

Creating Redirects in Atomic
Redirects are an essential part of running a website. Sometimes, a page will no longer be relevant and will need to redirect any old link...

Disabling XML-RPC
XML-RPC can be useful for external services to access your WordPress site, but can also cause additional resource usage and security issu...

Troubleshooting WordPress Media Upload HTTP Errors
Generic errors can be frustrating. This is especially true when you’re trying to do something as simple as upload an image to your WordPr...

How to Change the Max File Upload Size in WordPress Multisite
If you’re running a WordPress Multisite network, you might run into the vague “HTTP Error” message when uploading files. While WordPress ...

Index File Priorities and Static Pages
Within accessing directories on web hosting environments, there's a default order that files are located and loaded. Based on that order,...

Plugin Incompatibilities
A plugin incompatibility is any plugin that does not properly function on our infrastructure out of the box, creates site errors and/or m...

Plans for WordPress 5.0 (Bebo): the Gutenberg Editor Rollout
As a managed web hosting company Pagely pretty much handle updates the same way every time. Plugins and Security patches are applied ASAP...

Can I order a separate or additional server?
If you're an existing customer and want to add an additional server the process is pretty much the same as creating a new account. Here's...

Update and Manage Node.js version with n
Every Pagely VPS has the standard Node.js package installed from the Ubuntu repository. The package manager for Node.js is npm, which is ...

Standard Migration Procedures
In instances where you migrate an application internally our team will notify you of the risk of downtime known as 'the cutover period'. ...

How to Use Redis Caching in WordPress
Redis is a great way to speed up your WordPress sites. By using Redis to cache various database queries, your site can run faster than ev...

Preparing for Gutenberg
With the release of WordPress version 4.9.8 users will now be presented with the option to try out Gutenberg as a plugin, this is a signi...

How DMCA Notices Are Handled at Pagely
This article gives a brief overview on how Pagely, a US based organization, addresses DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) notices for ...

How to Block Crawlers and Other User Agents
When running a large WordPress site, performance can be critical. In the case of unwanted crawlers on your site, you might be giving up v...

Site Slow or Unreachable (High Number of 404's)
Overview This document is meant to discuss the potential issues and fixes with slow websites returning a high number of 404 status codes ...

24/7 Website Uptime Monitoring and Outreach for Your Pagely VPS
Pagely tracks all kinds of data points for your server and 24/7 incident response is included with every VPS plan. Our team will often ti...

How can I switch from monthly to annual billing?
If you would like to convert to annual billing after you have already signed up, please contact support and we can adjust your new paymen...

Advanced Custom Fields Pro and Object Cache Compatibility
Purpose Advanced Custom Fields is a really useful plugin. However, it can conflict with one main performance enhancing feature - WordPres...

Creating a Staging Environment
Using a staging environment is critical to the stability of your site. By testing your site on a staging environment before making it liv...

Do You Support exec() in PHP?
  For security purposes, we cannot allow the PHP exec() function to be enabled under any circumstances. Enabling the exec() function in ...

Imagick vs GD in WordPress
What Are Imagick and GD? Imagick and GD are popular image optimization libraries in PHP applications. While they both perform many of the...

Pagely's NGINX+Apache and NGINX-Only Modes
Pagely supports two different web server modes: NGINX+Apache Mode (Standard) NGINX-Only Mode (Optional) The default mode is NGINX+Apach...

EU Data Policies
The following article is geared towards our VPS and higher plans. Shared sites are hosted in our Virginia data center and do not have the...

PHP 7 Server Rebuild FAQs
The following FAQs cover some important details to be aware of when Pagely rebuilds your VPS in order to get Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and PHP 7, ...

VPS Server Visitor Capacity and Temporary Resize FAQs
Note: This article is for our customers on a VBURST-2 or higher plan. We do not support temporary resizes on our shared cluster. For shar...

EWWW Image Optimizer Plugin
You may see the following error when using the EWWW plugin: EWWW Image Optimizer requires exec(). Your system administrator has disabled ...

How to Send Traffic Through Our UK Datacenter
Pagely has content cache nodes in Ireland. To use them, point your CNAME to global.pagelyhosting.com. This DNS endpoint uses latency base...

Fixing CORS Errors
What Are Pagely's Default CORS Headers? By default, Pagely adds CORS headers on ARES for webfonts such as "eot|otf|svg|ttc|ttf|woff2...