Two ways to get wordpress.... correct?
I think i understand the pricing ok now… but one more… I assume that i can open up a new inode and auto dump wordpress onto that inode.
But if I open an inode.. at my rate that will be $5.00 per month added, however if I add wordpress to my existing inode then the only charge will be any extra bandwith i use or storage over my limit.. am I correct and if so can someone point me to the section that allows me to load wp either manually or the old way upload wp and unzip it….
Is the auto loader available to me if I load onto an existing node.
Is there some instrcutions for this…. I am a little weak on tracking down the instructions but will get better… Thanks
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Linodes are headless, un-managed, Linux distros which require you to do the configuring yourself to get up and running. That is installing PHP, MySQL, etc. You might already know all this stuff, but just in case, I'm putting it out there.
Bandwidth overage charges are not storage limits. The amount of bandwidth you get from the cheapest plan is 1TB. Every time someone or something (bots) visit your site, a little amount of data gets chipped away from your bandwidth quota.
For pure example, a visit to your site might cost 1MB of data. The plan gives you 1 TB = 1,048,576 MB so if you getting nearly a million visits to your site every month to your site, you might hit you maximum quota.
I personally use about 2-5% of my of my quota every month.
Storage is how much disk space your site uses. If your site is nearly 25GB in size, you might need a bigger plan. If you're not sure, check with your current provider to see how much disk space you're using. You might even be able to find out how much bandwidth you use every month too.
As far as migrating your old WordPress site to Linode, I would first start with the getting started guide. https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/getting-started/ Then go though securing your server at the end of the first guide. Then chose one of the of guides at the bottom of that guide.
Edit: I personally like Debian for a distro. Ubuntu is fine too. Some like CentOS, but CentOS will be making some development changes moving forward.
Thanks for that but not migrating anything just yet. Want to just set up a basic html site which the apache setup gave me a basic website..
So was also looking to load up a wp site… and if it can be loaded automatically and run then they must have loaded mysql and the db..else it would not run off the bat… Are the auto program loaders only for an initial website or can they be used with and existing website.
I am pretty familiar with most of the stuff and have done a lot of work at the command line.. but its like starting all over knowing where to find stuff and working w/o a cpanel… but i will make it one way or the other.. thanks again..
If you’re referring to the auto loaders for WordPress, that would be one click apps like this one https://www.linode.com/marketplace/apps/linode/wordpress
However this would be for creating a new site from scratch.
If you have an existing WP site then you’re probably going to want to install it manually, install plugins, etc, and load it from your existing database.
This guide would be it. https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/cms/install-wordpress-ubuntu-18-04/
Yes thank you that was exactly what I was asking.. anyway to use one button on an existing node. Great answer..