Dave Navarro, Jr.

Father, Web Developer, Journalist, Film Maker, Creative Soul

MXRoute Email Server Review

Dave Navarro, Jr.   January 8, 2020

So one problem with moving from traditional web hosting with cPanel/GoDaddy/Plesk to Cloud hosting like GridPane and Cloudways is that you don’t get email support.  Cloud servers are built without incoming email services.  So if you’re going to host a web site with these Cloud products, you may need to find somewhere to host email […]

Filed Under: Review, Web Server

GridPane: Migrating Web Sites

Dave Navarro, Jr.   December 26, 2019

One of the biggest pain points I’ve had with GridPane is migrating existing sites from Cloudways and cPanel.  GridPane structures things a little differently than CW and cPanel, so simply creating a backup of a site with Updraft, BackupBuddy or another backup plugin and then restoring it to the GridPane managed server doesn’t always work.  […]

Filed Under: GridPane, Web Server, WordPress

GridPane Review

Dave Navarro, Jr.   December 26, 2019

A couple of months ago someone turned me on to GridPane… and I am now a disciple.  I’ve completely moved off of Cloudways and I’m in the process of moving everything off of my dedicated LiquidWeb server onto the GridPane platform. What is GridPane? First, let’s talk about what GridPane “is and is not”.  GridPane […]

Filed Under: GridPane, Review, Web Server, WordPress

REVIEW: Cloudways Hosting Platform

Dave Navarro, Jr.   September 23, 2019

Cloudways Managed Cloud Hosting Platform is gaining in popularity for many good reasons, but do they “check all the boxes” for GREAT WordPress hosting? One constant struggle for all WordPress site owners is finding the right hosting. Even when you think you have it, something will cause you to look elsewhere, even if to reassure […]

Filed Under: Review, Web Server, WordPress

cPanel: Moving your root domain into the PUBLIC_HTML folder

Dave Navarro, Jr.   November 30, 2017

In cPanel, by default, the root domain of your account is the “/home/$account/public_html” folder.  Addon domains and subdomains are placed into subfolders within that folder. My preference is to place the root domain in a subfolder as well.  But there is no simple way to do that in cPanel or WHM.  But it can be […]

Filed Under: Web Server

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