Skip to content

11-maintenance.md

Latest commit

 

History

History
119 lines (84 loc) · 2.74 KB

11-maintenance.md

File metadata and controls

119 lines (84 loc) · 2.74 KB

11 — Maintenance & Monitoring

Daily Operations

Check Site Health

# Quick health check
curl -sf -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{time_total}s" https://yourdomain.com

# Check all containers running
docker compose ps

# Check disk usage
df -h
docker system df

Monitor Logs

# WordPress/Apache errors
docker compose logs --tail 50 wordpress

# Nginx access log
docker compose logs --tail 50 nginx

# MySQL errors
docker compose logs --tail 50 db

Weekly Tasks

  • Check WordPress Dashboard → Updates
  • Review Cloudflare analytics for unusual traffic
  • Test contact form submission
  • Verify SSL certificate expiry: echo | openssl s_client -servername yourdomain.com -connect yourdomain.com:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates

Monthly Tasks

  • Run PageSpeed Insights test
  • Check Search Console for crawl errors
  • Update plugins (test on staging if critical)
  • Review and clean up unused media files
  • Check backup integrity (restore test)

Update Workflow

# 1. Backup first
docker compose exec -T db mysqldump -u root -pPASSWORD wordpress > backup-before-update.sql

# 2. Update WordPress core + plugins via admin panel

# 3. Pull latest Docker images
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

# 4. Verify site works
curl -sf https://yourdomain.com

Disk Cleanup

# Remove old Docker images
docker image prune -a

# Clear WP Super Cache
docker compose exec wordpress rm -rf /var/www/html/wp-content/cache/supercache/*

# Clear Nginx cache
docker compose exec nginx rm -rf /tmp/nginx-cache/*

# Purge Cloudflare cache
# Dashboard → Caching → Purge Everything

Uptime Monitoring

Set up free monitoring with UptimeRobot:

  1. Add HTTPS monitor for https://yourdomain.com
  2. Check interval: 5 minutes
  3. Alert via email/Telegram on downtime

Disaster Recovery

If site goes down:

# 1. Check what's wrong
docker compose ps
docker compose logs --tail 100

# 2. Restart everything
docker compose restart

# 3. If database corrupted, restore from backup
docker compose down
docker volume rm wordpress-site_dbdata
docker compose up -d
docker compose exec -T db mysql -u root -pPASSWORD wordpress < backup.sql

# 4. Clear all caches after recovery
docker compose exec nginx rm -rf /tmp/nginx-cache/*
# Purge Cloudflare cache

Scaling

When you outgrow a single VPS:

  1. Object storage — Move media to S3/R2 + CDN
  2. Redis cache — Add Redis for database query caching
  3. Dedicated DB — Separate MySQL to its own server
  4. Multiple sites — Use this template for each new brand/domain

Congratulations! You now have a fully optimized, production-ready WordPress trade site. 🎉