CyberPanel Cloud have a dedicated WordPress Manager that can be used to deploy and manage WordPress sites. But if you are connecting existing CyberPanel installation to Cloud, you can use the scan feature to bring existing WordPress sites to WordPress Manager.
Follow along the tutorial to bring existing sites to WordPress manager.
How to detect existing WordPress sites to WordPress Manager:
Detecting existing WordPress sites in WP Manager is very easy and just a few clicks away. To detect the existing WordPress site first of all login to CyberPanel Cloud using your login details.
Provide your username and password.
https://cloud.cyberpanel.net
Now from the top menu go to the Server->List Server
You can see all servers you added to the account select the required server and click on the three dots you can see the Manage button press that.
Scroll down and you can see all of the sites you have on this server. To detect the WordPress on any existing site you just need to click the CyberPanel icon under the launch column.
You will navigate to a new screen here in the left menu you can see WP Manager -> Scan for WP press this button.
Now it's time to scan your site a big blue Scan button appears on your screen.
Click the Scan Now button and if your site have WordPress installed it will be detected and you will be redirected to WordPress Manager.
Read our Facebook announcement related to this feature.
After v2.1.1 and above we've added an option in the cloud to perform fail-safe upgrade. (This works only if you are on v2.1.1 or above)
The whole process is very simple and require few clicks only with no need to open a terminal.
Follow these steps to upgrade your server to the latest version using CyberPanel Cloud.
Note: This is free for everyone.
Login to CyberPanel cloud Using credentials:
Visit https://cloud.cyberpanel.net/ provide username and password to login into your account.
Once you logged in to your CyberPanel Cloud make sure your server that you want to update is connected to the cloud and running.
Connect Your server to CyberPanel Cloud:
To connect your server to the cloud go to the Connect CyberPanel -> Connect in the top menu.
To connect provides all details of your server:
Press connect and you can see a success message in green.
Upgrade Your CyberPanel Now:
To upgrade your cyberpanel:
Go to the Server->List Servers now select the server which you want to upgrade.
Now after selection click on the three dots present on a server
Now on the Manage page go to Settings -> Upgrade
On the Upgrade page just select the version you want to update to and press upgrade.
Around March 10th, 2021 million of websites went offline as fire destroyed one of the four data centers of OVHcloud in France. According to internet monitors many government, banks and news portal sites went offline because of the fire.
So, if you don't have a disaster recovery plan in place, your site could end up with same fate. That's where High availability come into play.
The High Availability feature allows you to maintain 100% uptime for your sites. In this feature, CyberPanel Cloud will take care of creating 100% replica of your Main server to a secondary Fail over server. We will go one-step further and take care of DNS switch in case your Main server goes down so that you can sleep peacefully.
You need to be at least on Professional or Business plan to create clusters, read more here.
In simple words, High Availability is the takeover or replacement of the server or system by another system on its failure. Now, how CyberPanel Cloud is doing it and what things you need to take care of are mentioned below:
Setting up High Availability/Clustering now becomes very easy with CyberPanel Cloud. The process of setting up high availability is very simple and easy.
There are a few things you must have before setting up the High Availability cluster:
Visit CyberPanel Cloud Here.
Login using your credentials and if you don't have an account create a new one.
Read more about CyberPanel Cloud.
To set up the High Availability feature, first, you need to Add API Key in the cloud.
Read here on how to configure the Cloudflare API key.
Setting up High Availability is very easy and simple on CyberPanel Cloud. Just need to follow the steps mentioned below:
Before using this feature both main and fail over servers must be connected to the cloud (you can use the connect feature if CyberPanel is already installed or the Deploy feature to install CyberPanel on fresh OS)
Once you have 2 servers connected to cloud, move forward
2. Now you need to select the options.
3. After providing all information Press Create Cluster button.
The next screen will show you the status of your cluster along with real-time data from your cluster nodes.
Once servers are attached to cluster, you will get a Boot Cluster button. Click the button, once both Main and Fail over server are booted, your cluster is now successfully created.
Servers will boot and show you in logs once done.
Once the clusters are booted you don't need to do anything. Sit back and relax, CyberPanel Cloud will take care of everything and notify you when your main server is down and then perform a DNS switch.
If you have any question or need help setting up a cluster feel free to contact us via our help desk.
CyberPanel have recently launched High Availability feature where you need to select a Cloudflare API to switch DNS in case Main server goes down. We will use your Cloudflare API to switch DNS to Fail over server so that your sites remain online.
Follow the article below to configure Cloudflare API so that you can start creating clusters.
In the first step, you have to log in to your Cloudflare to get an API key. Visit here to log in to Cloudflare.
In Cloudflare dashboard
2. In the top bar click on API Tokens then check the Global API key in the Keys section below.
3. Then Click the View button in front of the Global API Key.
4. You can see the API key in the prompt window.
This will ask for your Cloudflare password. Provide the details and press View.
You can see your API key copy this key and move to the next step.
Go to https://cloud.cyberpanel.net/ provide your login details and login to your CyberPanel Cloud account.
3. Configure your Cloudflare to Cyberpanel Cloud:
Once you logged in to the cloud account,
2. In the Cloudflare screen you have to provide all required information.
After providing all the information click Create button.
Below the add API key, you can see already configured keys.
You are now ready to create Highly Available Clusters.
When you have an active and working website you always have to take care of your data.
What happens if you suddenly see that your website is not working, or your data on the website is deleted or your website is hacked, or some update crashed the whole website. Oh, it’s a very critical and dangerous situation for you.
Now, to avoid this type of situation you need to set up a proper backup for your website. Backups are always proving as useful and important for you.
CyberPanel Cloud brings a new exclusive feature for you to set up your backups with CyberPanel Cloud.
To set up cloud backups you need to login to CyberPanel Cloud first.
Visit https://cloud.cyberpanel.net/ and log in by providing the login details.
If you do not have an account, please create an account and buy a suitable plan from the Cloud. Read more about plan and Cloud here https://cyberpanel.net/docs/what-is-cyberpanel-cloud/
Once you logged in you can see the different options. On the top menu, you can see the first option Servers.
Click on this server button and you can see all your server you added to CyberPanel Cloud.
On your server, you can see three dots on the top as shown below. Click on this button.
You can see three options
Click on the manage button here.
Here in this manage Dashboard, you can see the websites that you added below. There is a Launch button for each website as shown below. Click that launch button.
Once you get in the manage website option here you can see the Cloud Back option when you click on you can see a Create Backup option.
Here you can see the option for which you want to add backup. The most important thing you have to take care of that is what you want to include in a backup.
If you do not select any option nothing is included in the backup but a backup file will be created and a backup added.
Here is another exciting and important feature that you can restore your backup from the backup page.
Below the create backup button you can see the restore button if you want to restore backup instantly you can restore the backup by just clicking the restore button.
Almost 2 years ago we launched CyberPanel Platform (which is now discontinued) it allowed you to connect and manage your CyberPanel servers centrally. Upon user requests we've refactored the platform and launched CyberPanel Cloud.
We've removed all the redundant features that were in the old platform and added new and improved features to CyberPanel Cloud
On this platform, we are going to give a bunch of features to our users which include support and fixes. Here are some key features for our users:
High Availability/Clustering has been one of the most requested features within CyberPanel Cloud.
The High Availability feature allows you to maintain 100% uptime for your sites. In this feature, CyberPanel Cloud will take care of creating 100% replica of your Main server to a secondary Fail over server. We will go one-step further and take care of DNS switch in case your Main server goes down so that you can sleep peacefully.
Read more about this feature here.
We have introduced new and improved WordPress manager on CyberPanel Cloud. Features of WordPress Manager are listed below:
Here on this Cloud Platform, we provide some exclusive features to our users. A lot of users face issues with their mail server which can take hours to diagnose and resolve. We received a lot of requests and complaints about email issues.
On this new cloud platform, we have launched a 1-Click solution for our users, you just need to click a button, and each and every mail related issue will be resolved for you.
Just like the One-Click Email solution we have also have a One-Click DNS fix. If you are facing any issue with your DNS you can signup on to our cloud and get priority support to solve it.
This is also an exclusive feature and only access by the users who signup on this cloud platform.
We notice that there are also some users who face issues with their FTP. We also have a One-Click solution for FTP.
Right now there is a 25% discount on all plans. 6 months and 12-month plans have 1 month free on top of a 1 advanced payment.
MINIO Node can be configured from Cloud Platform. Register your self on cloud platform if you haven’t already, once registered you need to connect your server from here (Make sure you are on version 1.7.5 or above, you can visit upgrade instructions)
Once your server is connected to Cloud Platform, you need to add at least one MINIO node. Go go https://platform.cyberpanel.net/s3/"Server Name"/minioBackups. To add servers 3 parameters are required. (Replace Server Name with name of your server within Cloud Platform)
You can get all these parameters by reading Setup MINIO Block Storage Server.
If added successfully it should appear in the Current Servers table.
Next: Configure Backups
For MySQL optimizations go to: MySQL optimization on CyberPanel
CyberPanel v1.7.7 and above gives you ability to view and manage Databases/Table via platform. Register your self on cloud platform if you haven't already, once registered you need to connect your server from here (Make sure you are on version 1.7.7 or above, you can visit upgrade instructions)
Once your server is connected to platform, visit https://platform.cyberpanel.net/mysql/<Server Name>/databases
Here you will see all the databases present on your server, even though if they are not created directly from CyberPanel.
Once you are on the List Databases page, you can click Manage to view tables inside this database. Direct link would be:
https://platform.cyberpanel.net/mysql/<Server Name>/manage/<Database Name>
On this page you can delete or further manage a single table. Later we will add the ability to switch between MySQL Engines (InnoDB, MyISAM)
Now if you further want to view data or table structure you can click Manage on the table, direct link would be:
https://platform.cyberpanel.net/mysql/<Server Name>/manage/<Database Name>/<Table Name>/
Table scheme/structure can also be seen by clicking Structure.