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Speed Up Web Installs with SSH

Posted: October 21st, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Hosting | No Comments »

A lot of people who are new to the whole web hosting scene figure out FTP pretty quickly because of it’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Often, this is the go-to technique for people installing WordPress, Joomla! or Drupal (among others). However, we can find a faster way to install WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. We’ll use a combination of FTP and SSH to speed the process up.

The problem:

These software packages can take forever to upload! Not only are the files much larger because they are uncompressed, they are numerous, often hundreds if not thousands of separate files. The lag between initiating each transfer may be small but between hundreds of files…. you get the idea.

Let’s take a quick example with fresh Joomla! 1.5.7 install:

  • Zipped: 1 file @ 5.75mb
  • Unzipped: 3,914 files @ 12.6mb

Now imagine FTP‘ing these onto your server, which would be less hassle?

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