COPYING FILES BETWEEN S3 BUCKETS FOR LARGEFS

With WP Engine’s proprietary LargeFS system, utilizing an Amazon S3 bucket, you can offload all of your site’s images to help stay within your plan’s local storage limits. However, this does present a challenge when you want to create a new install as a copy of an...

Azure South Central US Datacenter outage and HA vs DR

As I woke up early morning I read news about the Azure South Central US Datacenter outage caused by cooling problems. On Linkedin I saw multiple posts from Azure experts that DR should have been implemented for the applications and databases. There were multiple...

Disallowed Plugins in WP Engine

With over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin repository, we only forbid a relative handful. There are pretty good odds that if you want to use a plugin on our infrastructure, you can! It’s your blog after all. But what about the disallowed...