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Managed WordPress Cloud Hosting Plans

Kiet Duong — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:44:15 +0000

We are happy to announce the launch of our managed WordPress hosting service. WordPress, which powers over 25% of all the websites in the world, is an online, open source content management tool. IO Zoom’s multi-tiered WordPress hosting program includes distinctive performance, security, and management capabilities.

“WordPress is an awesome platform for creating websites” said Kiet Duong, CEO of IO Zoom. “We’re very pleased to be able to help our clients take advantage of the tool to build sites and blogs without having to spend much time on the underlying technical stuff such as security and performance.” IO Zoom WordPress clients can take advantage of the popular website content management system (CMS) by having it hosted on the IO Zoom cloud infrastructure. The IO Zoom cloud is self-healing. It replicates the client’s WordPress website data to multiple servers with automatic failover.

The service includes the option of creating a “clone” of a WordPress website on a separate “staging” environment on another domain or subdomain with a single click. This enables the site owner to make changes without a6ecting the live site. IO Zoom allows for syncing of the content on the “staging” environment with the live website once all changes are con;rmed to function normally.

IO Zoom’s WordPress cloud servers are highly tuned and optimized for the best possible WordPress performance. To this end, the company has replaced Apache with the LiteSpeed web server and its server-side caching, LiteSpeed cache. This innovation greatly reduces overhead and allows caching to be done more quickly and more e?ciently than is possible with any other solution.

Security features include a free SSL certi;cate for every domain by Let’s Encrypt, support for HTTP/2, PHP 7, Memcached, and OPcache with 256 MB memory allocation to boost web page load speed. All IO Zoom WordPress sites are also backed up daily. As detailed on https://www.iozoom.com/wordpress-hosting.html, IO Zoom’s WordPress hosting service is available in multiple tiers, ranging from $5 per month for two websites with 10GB SSD of storage to $29 per month for unlimited sites and 60GB SSD of storage.

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WordPress White Screen of Death Fix

Kiet Duong — Sat, 13 May 2017 21:25:38 +0000

If you’ve been using WordPress for a while, you might be aware of the WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD). For those that don’t, the WordPress white screen is a distant sibling of the all too familiar Window’s Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). If you’re lucky enough to never seen one here is what it looks like.

What Does It Do?
The WordPress white screen makes your website inaccessible to administrators as well as visitors. While some browsers such as Mozilla Firefox abide by the name and show you nothing more than a white screen, some others such as Google Chrome present an HTTP 500 error.

If you encounter this with your WordPress site, the next step is to find out the root cause of the error and fix it. Below are the three most common reasons that can cause a WSOD.

1. Problem with Plugins
The most common reason is a faulty plugin. Maybe a plugin went bad during update or a newly installed plugin is not compatible with your website. To find out if this was the case you want to deactivate your plugins one-by-one. There are a few ways to do this.

Login through FTP and navigate to the directory that contains your WordPress files. From there, access the wp-content/plugins folder and deactivate each plugin one-by-one ( you could rename the folder associated with each plugin such as akismet to akismet_back so that WordPress doesn’t load it).

Another option is to simply login to WordPress admin and click on deactivate in your plugins section.

Once a plugin is deactivated, reload your site. If your website is up and running after a certain plugin is deactivated, you have found your culprit.

2. Problem with Themes
Themes are the second most common reason behind a white screen. Often, when you update a new theme, one or more of the plugins can conflict with the theme. Troubleshooting a theme is similar to troubleshooting a plugin. You simply need to navigate to the wp-content folder, as in the previous step and disable the existing theme. This will force WordPress to load a default theme such as Twenty Sixteen. If by any chance, you seem to have deleted the default theme, you can upload the theme again to the wp-content/themes folder.

If this fixes the white screen then you will need to deal with the faulty theme in order to solve the problem.

3. Memory Issues
Plugins and other WordPress processes use PHP memory for execution. It is possible that you may have outgrown the current memory capacity of your server or a faulty plugin is messing with the memory. You can manually increase the memory limit of your WordPress site by adding the following line of code to your wp-config.php.

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);

Conclusion
The above steps offer simple fixes and a step-by-step guide to fixing a WSOD error without any help from any third party. It is a good practice to keep a back-up of any file that you are about to alter in the WordPress directory.

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Managed WordPress VPS Plans

Kiet Duong — Sat, 06 May 2017 01:57:14 +0000

We are exicited to launch our managed and optimized WordPress VPS plans. WordPress powers over 26% of the web and is by far the most popuar CMS with a 60% market share. IO Zoom makes it easy to power your WordPress websites with the fastest technology to make your sites fly.

With high performance SSD’s along with Nginx and caching technology including Memcached, OPcache, and Varnish, your WordPress site will be hosted on a highly optimized and tuned Wordpress server stack. IO Zoom’s managed WordPress VPS come fully managed with cPanel and Softaculous included giving you the ability to install WordPress in one-click and start at $23/month.

For more details, plans and pricing, visit our Managed WordPress VPS page or contact us if you have any questions.

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