SpinupWP Launches CLI Tool and External Database Support – WP Tavern

SpinupWP, the cloud-based WordPress server management panel from the oldsters at Delicious Brains, turns 4 this 12 months. They celebrated by launching one of the regularly requested options, a command-line interface to handle servers and websites from the terminal.

Different current updates embrace external database support, the site log viewer which lets you view the final 1,000 traces from the WordPress debug.log file, in addition to the Nginx entry.log and error.log recordsdata, assist for DigitalOcean OAuth which makes provisioning new DigitalOcean servers a breeze, and the brand new Path Redirects function for managing a number of redirects on the server degree.

Together with the CLI, SpinupWP has additionally launched a PHP SDK which is powered by the SpinupWP REST API, providing you a number of choices to handle your websites and servers.

I requested Brad Touesnard, founder and CEO of Scrumptious Brains, the place the concept for SpinupWP got here from.

“Again in 2002, I began a internet hosting firm with my faculty roommate and constructed a internet hosting management panel from scratch,” Touesnard stated. “I made many unhealthy design selections constructing that software program and have all the time wished one other crack at it. For instance, that management panel needed to be put in on each server, and I dreamed of a centralized management panel that merely linked to every server by way of SSH and ran instructions. There’s one thing stunning about that design that I’ve wished to comprehend for a few years.”

That concept stayed with Touesnard as he based Scrumptious Brains and grew the corporate and its product providing. The appearance and recognition of Digital Non-public Server (VPS) suppliers like DigitalOcean, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud led to different open-source initiatives constructing managed server platforms for them. Laravel Forge was one such platform, which Touesnard and the group discovered very attention-grabbing. Many group members have launched WordPress-related initiatives and websites, and some of them used Laravel Forge.

The server software program necessities for Laravel and WordPress are comparable, however it might all the time require some additional configuration to host WordPress websites. This impressed SpinupWP lead developer Ashley Wealthy to put in writing the primary iteration of a tutorial on learn how to host WordPress your self, which ultimately grew to become the Install WordPress on Ubuntu information. After that, Wealthy and different group members like Iain Poulson switched from Forge or no matter service they had been utilizing to following the information and self-hosting WordPress.

“Our group grew to become very keen on utilizing Ashley’s information to configure servers for WordPress websites and Laravel apps, however setting all of it up was difficult and time-consuming,” Touesnard stated. “So Ashley constructed a small app to automate the supply steps. We mentioned the doable worth of this app at an organization retreat in 2017. We began speaking about whether or not this is able to make sense as a brand new Scrumptious Brains product, an app much like Laravel Forge however designed particularly for WordPress. We realized there have been many actually cool issues we might do by specializing in WordPress and obtained actually enthusiastic about constructing it.”

SpinupWP is the fruits of all these concepts. It’s a managed cloud server management panel that connects to your VPS supplier and provides you the whole lot that you must create servers and websites on the click on of a button. You keep full management of your infrastructure, however SpinupWP helps you handle the whole lot in a single place. This contains issues like including domains with free SSL certificates put in, switching a website to the newest PHP model, organising backups, and automated safety updates.

Most significantly, SpinupWP is designed for WordPress. WordPress-specific server-level caching and safety is out there from the minute you deploy your first website. It additionally contains WordPress options for builders like WP-CLI, WordPress Multisite assist, and a server-level cron to make sure your scheduled posts publish on schedule.

The SpinupWP group is consistently including new options and high quality of life enhancements to make managing servers simpler.

The product additionally lately launched the SpinupWP developer neighborhood for patrons, to supply them with a web based area the place they will work together with one another and SpinupWP group members, share insights, information, put up function requests, and usually assist make it the internet hosting platform they love to make use of.

Touesnard is happy about the way forward for internet hosting WordPress on cloud servers.

“With WordPress rising to a market share of over 40%, increasingly builders are on the lookout for methods to leverage the scalability and adaptability of digital servers to host their WordPress websites,” he stated. “Guided by our clients, we’re excited to see how SpinupWP grows to fulfill this demand.”