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Hosting
Hosting
Hosting is provided by ionos.co.uk, a cost effective virtual server provider.
Because the site is managed within CMS Made Simple, we're not using a "managed" hosting service as we would if we were using
Hosting package
Hosting package
We are using the ionos VPS S package, a single virtual server with Plesk enabled for managing the hosting environment & server operating system upgrades.
Plesk
Plesk
Plesk can be accessed via the ionos console, or directly here.
Email
Email
The ionos VPS can be configured to provide an email server but we've migrated away from this in favour of using Google Workspace to take advantage of a more user-friendly & secure email service.
Backups
Backups
Plesk is configured to perform automated daily incremental backups but they're currently stored on the same VPS server rather than off-site, so this is not fully redundant.
Managing WordPress
Managing WordPress
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Upgrading CMS Made Simple (deprecated)
Upgrading CMS Made Simple (deprecated)
This now only relates to the old website: https://old.cmyc.co.uk/
Log in to Plesk
Perform an adhoc "Full" backup
Log in to the server console from ionos via SSH
Select "Actions" ➡ "Open remote console"
Navigate to "/var/www/vhosts/cmyc.co.uk/httpdocs
Follow the instructions at https://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/upgrading/general-information
Use "wget" to download the latest version of CMS MS e.g.
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmsms/downloads/15179/cmsms-2.2.21-install.zip
Unzip the file e.g.
unzip cmsms-2.2.21-install.zip
Allow README-PHAR.TXT to be overwritten
Read README-PHAR.TXT
Backup config.php, just in case e.g. copy to /tmp
Open the unzipped php file in the browser https://www.cmyc.co.uk/cmsms-2.2.21-install.php
Follow the steps. Note you will need to know the database password (hint - it is in the existing config.php)
Log in to CMS Made Simple admin to verify the new version is live (displayed in the footer).
DNS
DNS
The domain name and DNS is managed within Martyn's 123-reg account.
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