I’m a great lover of the WordPress Duplicator Plugin that allows one to back up and move WordPress sites effortlessly.  However, probably because it is as good as it is, it can be quite finicky with how PHP needs to be set up.  With cPanel one does get a good idea which version PHP is being used and what options have been selected by the Admin.  With some cPanel setups one can even enable those options oneself.  With VestaCP there is no separate section for PHP and no visible info about its configuration.  Closest one gets  is when one checks the Domain in the edit window and one can see the basic options that have been enabled for PHP.  So of course since this is a very basic free hosting account and VestaCP a very basic panel, I fully expected the Duplicator plugin NOT to work.  And then couldn’t believe when it actually worked!

First the Backup Process passed the initial test by the Duplicator Plugin dialog Window, then indicated a few problems including the processing time that the PHP had been set up with.  I then overrode those, and I’m almost certain the processing time issue was sorted out because of the great speed of the hosting account.  I was blown away by the speed with which the backup package was created.  Was effortless to download it to my computer as well.

I still have to experiment whether I can use the Duplicator Plugin to migrate an existing WordPress site to the hosting account with VestaCP – probably could have done it, although it would have been tricky and I’d have missed out in all of the other learning experiences.  Still, it passed the duplicator backup package test, whereas quite a few cPanel free hosting accounts were unable to do so.  Mostly because of the way the Admin had set up PHP. Another thumbs up for Afreecloud.com!