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Which PHP version should your site use

Use the newest version your application says it supports, and never one that PHP itself no longer maintains. Here the version is chosen per folder in Select PHP Version, from…

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Backing up with mysqldump and pg_dump, and restoring the copy

Over SSH, you copy a MySQL or MariaDB database with mysqldump and a PostgreSQL database with pg_dump. Each produces a file you restore with mysql or with psql/pg_restore. It is…

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What a backup does not include: DNS, cron jobs, certificates and outside services

A copy only holds what lives inside the account, and only what that kind of copy picks up. Many people find out the rest on the day they need to…

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php -v in SSH shows another version than your site: running the PHP you chose

The php command you type in the Terminal or over SSH is not required to be the version you chose for the site. The site uses what you set in…

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Running a PHP script from a cron job

In Cron Jobs, in cPanel, the command is the full path of PHP, a space, and the full path of the script: /opt/alt/php82/usr/bin/php /home/YOURACCOUNT/scripts/task.php. Two things ruin most jobs that…

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Hosting an AI agent: why it needs a VPS and not shared hosting

An AI agent that runs on your own server (such as OpenClaw) is a program that has to stay running all the time, have root access and be reachable on…

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Why a backup is huge or fails, and how to make it smaller

A huge backup is almost never “the site”: it is what has piled up around the site. Cache folders, old copies forgotten in the account, error files that kept growing,…

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HTTPS for a container: a certificate and a domain

For an application running in a container to show the padlock, you need a domain pointing at the VPS and a certificate. The most common route is nginx in front…

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Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when

Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most everyday disasters (a deleted file, a plugin that broke the site). Your own copy,…

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What to back up before you update WordPress, plugins or PHP

Before an update, save three things: the database, the wp-content folder (plus wp-config.php and .htaccess) and a note of the versions you have now. It takes five minutes and is…