Yesterday I moved this blog over to NearlyFreeSpeech.net hosting, which I think has a great hosting plan for almost everyone. You only pay for what you use. The disk space is a bit costly than others ($0.01 per MB), but that cost is due to the numerous backups they take. The bandwidth cost is great, just $1 per GB. And there is no fixed cost for each month. I wanted to move FSLog to NFS, and finally did it. This is a small tutorial on getting wordpress installed and the various plugins I have used.
After you have setup an account with NFS and setup a site, you will be given the site details - like FTP, SSH, etc. I prefer using SSH if available, as it is faster to download and install directly than to get it on my machine and uploading it again.
Just ssh to the site and download the latest wordpress tarball and untar it
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
If you want to setup the blog at a subdirectory, just rename the ‘wordpress’ folder to something like ‘blog’. If you want it to be at the root of the site, just move all the contents of the wordpress folder to the parent directory.
Then visit your site http://your-site.nfshost.com or the domain if you have registered one.
It will guide you through the install process which is very easy. You just have to give the MySQL database details. You may need to temporarily give write permissions to the public folder, so that the installer can write a config file.
After this, login to your admin page and remember to change the password from Users menu.
After you have your blog setup, its time to get some basic plugins installed. You can get more functionality by installing these plugins.
All you have to do is just download the zip files to the wp-content/plugins/ directory and unzip them. The plugins I have installed are:
- WP-SuperCache
- This caches your blog’s contents as plain old HTML, so that your server doesn’t have to process and fetch all the data from the database. Previously the install process was a bit difficult, but now it has become very easy. Just unzip and activate.
- reCAPTCHA
- Prevent comment spam by using CAPTCHA for your comments form, also help in converting books to electronic format.
- Wordpress.com Stats
- Track your popular posts and other statistics by using the wordpress.com’s stats.
- Google Analyticator
- Google Analytics is an excellent user metrics analysis tool with bright colorful charts and best of all, it is free. This plugin asks just for your Google Analytics’ UID.
- Feedburner Feedsmith
- Feedburner is a great service for your RSS feeds and I have been using that for this blog for a long time. This plugin is now the official plugin and it automatically redirectly your feeds to the FeedBurner link.
These are my list of plugins. So, what are the plugins that your have?
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