Do you provide any services?
No. This website, associated chat rooms and social media groups, and overall community is to promote and support our FOSS software SlickStack. We do not provide any free or paid services of any kind, and do not allow advertising in our chat rooms or groups either. If you need help setting up a SS server, […]
update github plugins
One of the goals of SlickStack is to provide a model for decentralization of WordPress, and CMS stacks as a whole. One of the key features we aim to promote is steering away from relying on WordPress.org for plugin discovery, installation, or updates. GitHub is the future, period (and with it, Git). The free and […]
Custom Cron Schedule
Currently its not possible (or at least, not recommended) to modify the root Crontab. This is one of the main features of SlickStack, is hardcoded cron schedules to achieve top stability and performance. Too many teams jump into the Linux crontab and start hacking crons all over the place without thinking about the future, or […]
Why is Amazon AWS not recommended?
Because its extremely complex, even for advanced teams. As with many services and tech that gets “trendy” with corporate and enterprise teams, it eventually gets mentioned on blogs and at conferences and the “smaller” guys start to repeat these recommendations, even though they don’t have much idea about them. AWS is the perfect example. The […]
email delivery
Currently no built in way to deliver email from the server as Postfix (etc) not installed for security reasons and to keep your server IP address from ever getting blacklisted by Spamhaus etc. The best way to send email from WordPress is signing up for an account at SendGrid, Mailgun etc then using an API […]
Backup Options
Much of the goal of SlickStack is to reduce bloat in the WordPress stack. Backup plugins tend to be one of the worst contributors to bloat because they not only use lots of CPU and RAM but also save many unsafe archives of data on your local server folders, meaning a security issue too. Our […]
HTTP Nginx Auth (Password Required) Option?
Not at this time. We felt that adding a secondary “http auth” login via Nginx to the WP Admin / WP login is a bit pointless. SlickStack already has built in anti-brute force features for that URI pattern, as does Cloudflare. You can even use Cloudflare to setup a DNS-level auth page or security rules […]
Errors During Update
The vast majority of “errors” or issues with SlickStack can be solved by simply running the following scripts, sometimes repeatedly, until all files and configuration are force updated: ss-check ss-worker ss-update ss-install If you have run ss-update or ss-install for example, but encounter either errors in the shell (CLI) or frontend (e.g. 500 error, etc) […]
Subdomains Support
Yes subdomains and sub-subdomains are supported with SlickStack for both single sites and multisite networks in WordPress. Single site examples: sub.example.com sub.sub.example.com blog.example.com Multisite network examples: shops.example.com blogs.students.example.com However if you are using the “www” subdomain for vanity or usability reasons, this will also work fine — but most developers will not refer to this […]
All the SSL Variation Options
Complete breakdown of the variations used in SlickStack config when generating SSL certificates for both OpenSSL and Let’s Encrypt (Certbot): https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/ss-encrypt.txt Single Site + Not Subdomain + Contains www + Email Alerts Single Site + Subdomain + Contains www + Email Alerts Single Site + Not Subdomain + Not www + Email Alerts Single […]
