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Hosting

So, I haven’t posted in 9 months apparently (this is mainly due to being busy buying/renovating a house). Just before christmas I realised that my website wasn’t working (I don’t often check it to be honest), and when I looked into this, 000webhost had disabled my hosting account due to “for violating 20%+ CPU usage limit for more than 1000 times”. It gave me the option to re-enable my account by upgrading my hosting to a paid account (which I…

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000webhost – Easiest way to update large plugins/themes

000webhost – Easiest way to update large plugins/themes

So, after using 000webhost for a while now, it becomes quite a chore to update wordpress plugins and themes if their compressed file size is over the limit that 000webhost allows. The way I had been doing it was to wait until I had quite a few to update then downloading each plugin manually and extracting it, then using filezilla to upload all the files. This might not sound like much, but it can get quite tedious if you compare…

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Update on 000webhost

Update on 000webhost

After giving them such a good review in my earlier post, I was starting to get very frustrated with the web hosting. The main reason being that whenever I came to do things in the admin panel, I would quite often get Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted     After searching round, I tried setting “WP_MEMORY_LIMIT” to 96M in the wp-config file, this appears to have done the trick, as I’ve not received the error since…

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New Hosting

New Hosting

So I was sick of paying ~£22 a year for the hosting/web domain at one.com due to their lack of UK servers and terrible speed, and decided to switch hosing/domain registrar. I looked around and decided that for the amount that I use my site, it was not really worth paying anything for hosting, and this is when I decided I’d try www.000webhost.com for hosting as they provide a free service that covered my needs (couple of MySQL databases, PHP support, 1.5GB…

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