Nobody knows ANYTHING about this?
I’m going to provide three answers for you 🙂
Option 1
CloudFlare provide a free CDN service that (aside from the “beta” features) works really well with WordPress. It can even continue to display a “cache” of your site when your server is offline.
Option 2
You could set up another identical install of WordPress on another hosting account/server. When the servers are running side by side, you could use a plugin like FeedWordPress (http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/) to aggregate all your posts over to the backup site.
If your DNS provider supports “DNS Failover” you can set it to redirect all traffic to server #2 when your primary server is detected to be offline.
This is a really choppy, ineloquent method that I would recommend against, but in my experience… it actually works, and is easy to set up.
Option 3
Invest in a proper backup service (VaultPress) and a powerful CDN provider (Akamai/Level3/MaxCDN). Free/low cost solutions can work great, but if you’re talking freaky-high traffic and 99.999^% uptime, you need to splash some cash.
Wow thanks. You the man!
Sounds like option 1 might be good for now and option 3 as we continue to grow.
Thank you so much!
No problem, there is nothing more annoying than asking a question and not getting a decent answer. I’m glad I could be of some help 🙂
The first one – RE theme recommendations.
Look around the big theme marketplaces and stores. My personal favourites are WooThemes and Themeforest.
Second question – RE Like buttons.
I always prefer to have social networking widgets/icons build directly into my theme. I’ve made my own Facebook button using the API which sites in the sidebar of one of my sites (http://freewareninja.com/)
Here is the code I used: (You will need to replace the URL obviously)
<div align="center" style="clear:both;">
<div align="center" style="width:260px;background-color:#F3F3F3;border:1px solid #ccc">
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Freeware-Ninja/211784108839935&width=260&colorscheme=light&show_faces=false&stream=false&header=false&height=65" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:260px; height:62px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
You’re right that there are not many Twitter buttons available that look good. I use the official Twitter button inside my posts themselves on a few site. If you are just looking for a good static link I once again suggest making one yourself. You can get some good Twitter graphics from sites like iconfinder.com which you can wrap in a bordered box using the code I poster for Facebook, minus the Facebook stuff 😉
Wow thanks… you are just full of useful info!!!!
I’m going to check out the shops you recommended – thanks!
Recarding the code you gave for the like box do you know how I figure out what that ID number is that’s required? It will not accept the link http://www.facebook.com/singledudetravel
Re: twitter I was hoping for a one click follow – i guess the official is the only one you know of?
Thanks again!
Go to the Facebook Likebox page (it’s somewhere on Facebook.com, try a Google search) and just copy whatever ID number/url the generator gives you.
There is nothing I know of for Twitter click following. Most users prefer to see the kind of tweets you create before agreeing to follow you, so it might be a good idea to use a “latest tweet” or “tweet feed” widget on your site somewhere. The Extend -> Plugins has a whole bunch of them. Many themes have them baked in too.
Cool thanks, is this the same likebox I already have at http://www.singledudetravel.com on the top right hand side? I’m having problems getting it formatted nicely.
Thanks.
I believe they are the same thing. I would confirm that, but your pages source code is murderously difficult to read and I’m pressed for time 😛
