Introduction There are multiple, quick, and easy ways to backup your website’s database. In this article, we’ll look at two different options: phpMyAdmin and WP-CLI. Table of Contents Exporting via phpMyAdmin Importing via phpMyAdmin Exporting via WP-CLI Importing via WP-CLI…
Introduction This is one of the more common, and more scary WordPress errors, but it can usually be solved pretty quickly. Below is our guide to diagnosing and fixing the database connection errors on your WordPress sites. For those very…
First navigate to the staging page inside your GridPane account. Unless you’ve gone through this process before, all of the database icons will be displayed in orange instead of green like below. Click on the orange database icon of the…
Introduction GridPane uses Monit to manage services and restart them if necessary to ensure the stability of your server. We set MySQL to restart if it starts using too much CPU or Memory, and we set thresholds based on the amount…
Table of Contents Introduction Step 1. Login to MySQL Step 2. Update Your Site’s MySQL User Password Step 3. Change the Database Password for the Website Step 4. Reset PHPMyAdmin Credentials Introduction In the highly unlikely event that you need…
Table of Contents Introduction Checking Database Sizes 1. WP-CLI 2. Optimization Plugins 3. PHPMyAdmin Introduction Here at GridPane, we’ve opted to use InnoDB as the default storage engine for SQL. It’s typically more performant than other storage engines like MyISAM.…