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Restoring WP Engine Snapshot Locally

WP Engine has a built-in staging site which is awesome, however sometimes troubleshooting requires more direct access. For those times, I like to take a WP Engine backup snapshot and…

Convert MyISAM tables to InnoDB with SSH

There are many benefits in converting your MySQL storage engine from MyISAM to InnoDB. Kinsta has a great write up on the topic: https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/convert-myisam-to-innodb/. While you can do this manually per…

Integrating KeyCDN with Kinsta caching

It’s recommend that you use a CDN with Kinsta. This is due to the fact that they charge overage fees on data transferred. Currently Kinsta doesn’t have a built-in CDN option…

Migrating from WP Engine to Kinsta

Moving WordPress sites between host providers is a fairly straightforward process. You generate a backup, import the backup, and reconfigure DNS to the new provider. With that said, doing it…